Dalkey archive press jun 2023 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ugly side of superheroesWhat if you suddenly had superpowers What would you do How would your friends and family react What would your obligations to society be The superheroes' first missions combating terrorists or rescuing disaster victims are a boon to France. Yet while these actions bring the country pride, unity quickly starts to unravel. These superheroes, ultimately, are human. Paparazzi are everywhere. One has an affair with another's wife. Another questions following the government's imperialist agenda. Meanwhile the public carps on social media. Molia takes our fascination with superheroes and adds a cutting portrayal of contemporary social mores to create an entertaining and disturbing work with deep dystopian underpinnings.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In her most experimental work to date, Karla Marrufo Huchim explores universal themes with appreciable specificity: loneliness, family angst, memory lossfrom a perspective belonging singularly to a native of the Yucatán Peninsula. Mayo's unnamed narrator is an older woman, isolated in her domestic life, who is both suffering from memory loss and intent on recounting the lives of three generations of her family. The Yucatán culture and community that Marrufo Huchim describes through her narrator's fine but faltering mind will be foreign but not fetishized for American readers.…