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Wake, Siren - Ovid Resung (Paperback)
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Wake, Siren - Ovid Resung (Paperback)
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List price R482
Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
You Save R117 (24%)
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In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim
their stories and challenge the power of myth I am the home of this
story. After thousands of years of other people's tellings, of all
these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I'll tell it
myself. Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demi-goddesses,
populate the famous myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses. But what happens
when the story of the chase comes in the voice of the woman fleeing
her rape? When the beloved coolly returns the seducer's gaze? When
tales of monstrous transfiguration are sung by those transformed?
In voices both mythic and modern, Wake, Siren revisits each account
of love, loss, rape, revenge, and change. It lays bare the violence
that undergirds and lurks in the heart of Ovid's narratives,
stories that helped build and perpetuate the distorted portrayal of
women across centuries of art and literature. Drawing on the
rhythms of epic poetry and alt rock, of everyday speech and folk
song, of fireside whisperings and therapy sessions, Nina
MacLaughlin, the acclaimed author of Hammer Head, recovers what is
lost when the stories of women are told and translated by men. She
breathes new life into these fraught and well-loved myths.
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