Collins, Sophie
Who Is Mary Sue?
- ISBN 13:
- 9780571346615
- author:
- Collins, Sophie
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 112
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 12.9 x 1.1 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Poetry, General, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Sophie Collins' debut poetry collection explores the concept of the 'Mary Sue', an idealised and flawless character often perceived as narcissistic. In this innovative work, Collins examines the presumptive politics behind writing and readership, challenging traditional notions of identity and selfhood. Through a series of verse and prose collages, Collins exposes the underlying assumptions that govern our understanding of creativity and cultural production. Part poetry and part reportage, these fictive-factual miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention, lifting up and laying down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors. This book is a work for our times, offering a handbook for those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood. It will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition, and culture, inviting readers to think fearlessly in the modern world.
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