Sad sack : collected writings /
Sad Sack is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin's 1986 essay 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,' opposing "the linear, progressive, Time's-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic." Encompassing more than...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Book Works,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Sad Sack is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin's 1986 essay 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,' opposing "the linear, progressive, Time's-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic." Encompassing more than a decade of work, 'Sad Sack' tracks Al-Maria's speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her "premature" memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of "Gulf Futurism," towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria was Whitechapel Gallery's Writer in Residence 2018, her exhibition BCE (Whitechapel Gallery, January April 2019), draws on a year of performances and readings, culminating in two short creation myth films, one from the ancient past, originating with the Wayuu tribe in northern Colombia, the other from the distant future, made with Victoria Sin. |
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| Physical Description: | 191 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1906012822 9781906012823 |
| Place of Publication: | Europe. England -- London. |