Quiet orient riot /

Quiet orient riot is a book about birth regimes and the politics of reproduction. Tracing the immaculate conception of a child through to her birth, it unspools the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. What does it mean to bear a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khankan, Nathalie, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : Omnidawn Publishing, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Bread Is Flat In My Hand
  • Quiet Orient Riot
  • Still Torn Hill
  • A Dinosaur In The Field
  • A Young Arafat Glints In The Afternoon Sun
  • Demography I
  • We Consume Summer
  • A City Was Close & Open
  • Human Rights Work
  • This Chirpy Printed Sound
  • The Surface I'M Gripping
  • Meanwhile Intervals
  • Demography II
  • Inside An Ovulation
  • Hebrew I Knew
  • A Name Is Doing Hard Work
  • Liturgy I
  • Milk Vetch
  • Hebrew I Knew Too
  • It's A Living Situation
  • My Body Is On The Way
  • Leading Follicles
  • This Land Is Fabulous Priority
  • Streets That Narrow
  • They Lie Square & Altered
  • Let's Transfer Some Embryos
  • She Fed Him Like A Baby Bird
  • Something You Cross Should Be A River
  • At The Foot Of Stars It's An Operation Of Dust
  • To Say The Latitudes Are Clearly
  • Liturgy II
  • Apple Cheeked In Your Chosen Body
  • I Wait For No One Now
  • Liturgy III
  • Kissed To Be Weighed
  • Early & Already
  • The Way She Must've Learned To Write
  • The Capacity For Happiness Despite Visual Evidence Is Great
  • A Human Count Is Crucial
  • I Hear Your Eyelashes Grow Bucket Girl
  • My Nerve Endings Are Material
  • Liturgy IV
  • Our Nearly Demographic Standing
  • That Summer Wasn't A Pleasant Person
  • Some Straight Lines Are Generous
  • The Joy The Full
  • This Heart Is Shape Shifting
  • The Figs You Held
  • Home Is Equal Parts Architectural & Guttural
  • Riot Cosmology
  • Birth Is A Social Process & You Are Something Stunning.