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Description for Kissed by
Paperback. Set in New York, New England, Paris, and Morocco, this work is a collection of tales that are narrated by men and women, old and young, gay, straight, and bisexual; one narrator is not a person at all, but a work of art. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
This work is a collection of innovation fictions that range widely in form and style. Alexandra Chasin's remarkable stories employ forms as diverse as cryptograms (in ""ELENA=AGAIN"") and sentence diagrams (in ""Toward a Grammar of Guilt"") to display her interest in fiction as a form constituted by print on the page, every bit as much as poetry. In ""They Come From Mars,"" the words are arrayed on the page like troops, embodying the xenophobic image of invading armies of immigrants and illegal aliens that animates the narrative. One story incorporates personal ads (""Lynette, Your Uniqueness""), another is organized alphabetically (""2 ... Read more
This work is a collection of innovation fictions that range widely in form and style. Alexandra Chasin's remarkable stories employ forms as diverse as cryptograms (in ""ELENA=AGAIN"") and sentence diagrams (in ""Toward a Grammar of Guilt"") to display her interest in fiction as a form constituted by print on the page, every bit as much as poetry. In ""They Come From Mars,"" the words are arrayed on the page like troops, embodying the xenophobic image of invading armies of immigrants and illegal aliens that animates the narrative. One story incorporates personal ads (""Lynette, Your Uniqueness""), another is organized alphabetically (""2 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573661386
SKU
V9781573661386
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About Alexandra Chasin
Alexandra Chasin has taught literary, cultural, and gender studies at Boston College, Yale University, the University of Geneva, and Columbia University. She is the author of Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market. Her fiction has appeared in AGNI, Chain, sleeping fish, West Branch, Phoebe, The Capilano Review, and online in Exquisite Corpse, DIAGRAM, and elimae. A ... Read more
Reviews for Kissed by
Alexandra Chasin is a hugely brave writer. She dares to push the extremes of style, while daring to push the extremes of emotion. - Jonathan Safran Foer