Who Is Mary Sue? (Paperback, Main)

WINNER OF THE MICHAEL MURPHY MEMORIAL PRIZE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior. Part poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority. A work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. Who Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2018
Authors:	Sophie Collins
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-34661-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-571-34661-8
Barcode:	9780571346615

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