Monster portraits /

"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister...

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Main Author: Samatar, Sofia (Author)
Other Authors: Samatar, Del (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, Inc., 2018.
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Summary:"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday--Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
Item Description:Accession # 2018_0048.
“Donated by Jeremy Brett.”
Physical Description:78 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-73).
ISBN:9781941628102
1941628109