Girl Zoo

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-57366-070-9
Verlag: University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 232 g

A dark yet playful collection of short stories that pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between the real and surreal.
 
Girl Zoo is an enthralling and sometimes unsettling collection of short stories that examines how women in society are confined by the limitations and expectations of pop culture, politics, advertising, fashion, myth, and romance. In each story, a woman or girl is literally confined or held captive, and we can only watch as they are transformed into objects of terror and desire, plotting their escape from their cultural cages.
 
Taken as a whole, this experimental speculative fiction invites parallels to social justice movements focused on sexuality and gender, as well as cautionary tales for our precarious political movement. Parkison and Guess offer no solutions to their characters' captivity. Instead, they challenge their audience to read against the grain of conventional feminist dystopian narratives by inviting them inside the ""Girl Zoo"" itself.
 
Take a step inside the zoo and see for yourself. We dare you. Behind the bars, a world of wonder awaits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parkison, Aimee

Guess, Carol

Über Autor(innen)

Aimee Parkison is the author of Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman: Stories, winner of Fiction Collective Two's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, The Petals of Your Eyes, and the story collections The Innocent Party and Woman with Dark Horses, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. Parkison is the director of creative writing at Oklahoma State University, where she teaches fiction writing in the MFA and PhD programs.
 
Carol Guess is the author of nineteen books of poetry and prose, including Darling Endangered, Doll Studies: Forensics, Tinderbox Lawn, and With Animal (cowritten with Kelly Magee). In 2014 she was awarded the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement by Columbia University. She teaches in the MFA program at Western Washington University and lives in Seattle.