Girl Zoo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573660709)

Vendor: Aimee Parkison
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Girl Zoo

$18.95

Girl Zoo

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Aimee Parkison,Carol Guess
ISBN-10: 1573660701
ISBN-13: 9781573660709
Publisher: FC2
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2019
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d
By Aimee Parkison
By Aimee Parkison
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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.

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