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Son corps et autres célébrations

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 219

Une femme porte en permanence un ruban vert autour du cou et refuse que son mari le touche, quelle que soit la situation. Une autre fait l'" inventaire " de ses amant(e)s tandis qu'autour d'elle, un fléau plonge les États-Unis dans l'angoisse. Une autre encore fait une curieuse découverte dans une boutique de robes de bal : les objets familiers et usuels recèlent peut-être une vérité terrifiante... Les nouvelles de Carmen Maria Machado ne sont d'aucun genre : tour à tour fantastiques, fantaisistes ou proches de la science-fiction, elles préfèrent le trouble à la certitude, l'ombre à la clarté, l'inventivité au classicisme. Elles partagent cependant une ambition commune : dire la réalité de l'expérience des femmes et la violence qui s'exerce sur leurs corps. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Hélène Papot.

Dans la maison rêvée

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 289

Alors qu’elle est encore une écrivaine débutante, Carmen Maria Machado rencontre une jeune femme sophistiquée et fascinante qui la séduit. Très vite, cette passion est partagée et elles s’installent ensemble dans leur « maison rêvée » pour vivre pleinement leur amour. Mais ce rêve tourne rapidement au cauchemar quand la compagne de Machado devient jalouse, paranoïaque et violente tant en paroles qu’en actes. Cette « maison rêvée » ne serait-elle pas un piège ou une prison ? Peu à peu l’autrice s’enferme dans une relation toxique dont elle peine à s’échapper... Dans la maison rêvée explore le tabou de la violence conjugale au sein des couples de même sexe. C’est aussi un récit d’une inventivité extraordinaire : en courts chapitres qui manipulent les codes de tous les genres littéraires, elle s’interroge sur les histoires qu’on choisit de taire et les voix qu’on ne veut pas entendre – et ce que cela dit de nous. Un texte nécessaire, courageux et innovant qui fait l’effet d’une détonation.

In the Dream House

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 280

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as...

En la casa de los sueños

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 300

El testimonio personal de una historia de abusos en el marco de una relación lésbica relatado con un estimulante virtuosismo literario. Cuando era una joven aspirante a escritora, Carmen Maria Machado conoció a una chica menuda, rubia, de clase alta, licenciada en Harvard, sofisticada y fascinante con la que inició su primera relación lésbica, después de varias experiencias sexuales con hombres. La chica poseía una idílica cabaña en Bloomington, Virginia: la casa de los sueños del título. Pero los sueños se convirtieron en pesadillas cuando la novia de Machado empezó a mostrarse celosa, controladora y paranoica, para luego acusarla de engañarla con todo el mundo y acabar agrediéndola verbal e incluso físicamente. Este libro es el testimonio de una relación tóxica, que en este caso no tiene como agresor a un varón heterosexual de mentalidad patriarcal y machista, sino a una lesbiana. Y este es un primer elemento que da valor al texto: la denuncia de la violencia en la pareja dentro de la comunidad queer. Pero la calidad excepcional de la propuesta de Machado va más allá: en lugar de quedarse en un mero ejercicio de testimonio personal, utiliza la historia...

Her Body and Other Parties

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 229

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially...

Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality

Autor: Sarah Faber , Kerstin-anja Münderlein

Número de Páginas: 237

From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media – including novels, films, podcasts, and games – in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.

Una habitación compartida

Autor: Inés Martín Rodrigo

Número de Páginas: 249

Una antología de las entrevistas de Inés Martín Rodrigo con las grandes escritoras de nuestra época. En una sociedad y un imaginario aún codificados por el patriarcado, donde un porcentaje muy reducido de lectores hombres lee ficción escrita por mujeres, esta selección de maravillosas conversaciones nos descubre a las escritoras que han luchado,incansables, por vivir y escribir bajo sus propias reglas; por derribar prejuicios y conquistar derechos; por ocupar, gracias al valor de sus textos y más allá de su pertenencia a un género, el lugar que merecen. A través de las preguntas y las respuestas que conforman estas charlas íntimas, fluidas e inteligentes, el lector descubrirá aquello que distingue el pensamiento y las obras de estas escritoras, que, si todavía no ha leído, le quedará claro por qué debería hacerlo. A la vez, su lectura en conjunto hace emerger un territorio común: ser mujer y ser escritora en este siglo, con todo lo que eso implica. Y es que, además de reflexionar sobre sus libros y lo que significa escribir para cada una de ellas, indagan en las relaciones que articulan el triángulo de la literatura, la vida y la sociedad, abordando los...

Memoria, género y educación

Número de Páginas: 571

El presente volumen Memoria, género y educación: resistencias y nuevas miradas en la literatura y la didáctica pone el foco, precisamente, en la activación de un viraje, de un cambio. Así, partiendo de una perspectiva feminista y queer y un claro posicionamiento político, los capítulos aquí recogidos transitan por diferentes experiencias docentes, aportado soluciones reales y probadas, al tiempo que ahondan en nuevas fórmulas de representación, investigación y enseñanza. Funcionan, de este modo, como herramientas poderosas para provocar una transformación real y efectiva, para horadar un canon literario, artístico y, en general, cultural que ha privilegiado ciertas representaciones heteropatriarcales y ha ignorado deliberadamente historias de disidencia y resistencia. Divididos en cuatro grandes bloques, los capítulos de este volumen exploran temas variados, desde autoras y autores olvidados, pasando por obras literarias, novelas gráficas, materiales audiovisuales y producciones culturales ignoradas, hasta la relación entre salud mental y docencia o la importancia de las genealogías sáficas en la educación universitaria. Se conforma, por tanto, como una obra...

Na casa dos sonhos

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 335

Ao expor a história de seu relacionamento com uma mulher encantadora, mas também volátil e abusiva, Carmen Maria Machado traça um arco narrativo que vai desde o início cheio de promessas até o final difícil e confuso, que deixa marcas impossíveis de ignorar. Carmen se apaixonou por uma mulher que parecia maravilhosa — elas fazem sexo, viajam juntas, conhecem as respectivas famílias —, mas que acaba se tornando opressiva e aterrorizante, apesar de ainda sedutora. Embora seja difícil resistir ao charme da companheira, a autora cada vez mais se dá conta de que os limites autoimpostos — aquelas balizas que fazem dela a pessoa que quer ser — estão sendo ignorados. A casa dos sonhos deveria ser um lugar de felicidade e acolhimento, mas como é possível entender a transformação dela em assombro e violência? Em vez de traçar seu passado de forma linear, Carmen Maria Machado o fragmenta para alcançar o maior efeito possível na pessoa que lê, criando um mergulho emocional ao mesmo tempo angustiante e belo. Neste livro de memórias ousado e brutal, Machado examina um relacionamento abusivo através de sua percepção pessoal, mas também por um viés cultural e...

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

Autor: Kate Bolick , Jenny Zhang , Carmen Maria Machado , Jane Smiley

Número de Páginas: 186

Four acclaimed female authors—including Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley and In the Dream House author Carmen Carmen Maria Machado—reflect on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel of girlhood and growing up. Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott’s novel Little Women—what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes her subject as one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they can teach us about life. Meg March by Kate Bolick: The New York Times–bestselling author of Spinster finds parallels in oldest sister Meg’s brush with glamour at the Moffats’ ball and her own complicated relationship with clothes. Jo March by Jenny Zhang: The short story writer of Sour Heart confesses to liking Jo least among the sisters when she first read the novel as a girl, uncomfortable in finding so much of herself in a character she feared was too unfeminine. Beth March by Carmen Maria Machado: The In the Dream House author writes about the real-life tragedy of Lizzie Alcott, the inspiration for third sister Beth, and the horror story ...

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture

Autor: Emma Rees

Número de Páginas: 614

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.

Su cuerpo y otras fiestas

Autor: Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 186

Ocho cuentos perturbadores que giran alrededor de lo femenino, el cuerpo y la sexualidad. Un debut arrollador. Una mujer se niega a permitir que su marido le quite una misteriosa cinta verde que lleva alrededor del cuello; otra mujer relata sus encuentros sexuales mientras una letal plaga se extiende por el planeta; una intervención quirúrgica para perder peso tiene unos resultados siniestros; un par de detectives investigan varios crímenes acompañados por los fantasmas de las chicas asesinadas; una mujer es capaz de oír los pensamientos de los actores de las películas porno... Los ocho cuentos que componen este libro exploran el universo femenino mezclando sin complejos terror, realismo mágico, erotismo, ciencia ficción y comedia. Aquí la sexualidad confluye con lo siniestro, el deseo se torna perturbador, el humor deriva hacia lo grotesco y el cuerpo y la carnalidad se convierten en el sugestivo e inquietante centro de la creación literaria.

Bridging Identities: The Role of Intersectionality in Humanities

Autor: Dr. Subhashini M.c

Número de Páginas: 130

"Bridging Identities: The Role of Intersectionality in Humanities" highlights the significance of intersectionality in understanding complex identities and experiences in humanities. It emphasizes how intersecting factors like race, gender, class, and sexuality shape individual and collective identities, promoting a nuanced and inclusive approach to humanities research and education.

Summary of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House

Autor: Everest Media,

Número de Páginas: 40

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Dream House is a real place. It is next to a forest and at the rim of a sward. It has a foundation, though rumors of the dead buried within it are a fiction. Every room can be a bedroom: you only need a bed or not even that. Your actions are mightier than any architect’s intentions. #2 I lived with John and Laura, a couple from Florida, in Iowa City. They were a perfect example of Florida camp and eccentricity. Laura looked like a old-fashioned movie star, while John looked like a grunge rocker-cum-offbeat-professor. #3 I have spent my life hopping from city to city, befriending like-minded individuals at each stop. My friends and roommates were always there to take care of me, but this story is about me and John and Laura. #4 The trick is that the yellow always comes off on your skin. The dandelion yields every time. It has no wiles, no secrets, no sense of self-preservation. And so we understand something we cannot articulate: that the diagnosis never changes. We will always be hungry.

Memoria dos festejos celebrados em Hongkong por occasião do tricentenario do principe dos poetas Portuguezes Luiz de Camões

Número de Páginas: 114

Carmilla

Autor: Joseph Sheridan Lefanu

Número de Páginas: 144

Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship-until a carriage accident brings the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla into her life. Le Fanu's compelling vampire tale was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's Dracula. The Lanternfish Press edition includes notes and a new introduction by award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado.

Novel Subjects

Autor: Leah A. Milne

Número de Páginas: 265

How does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal? In Novel Subjects, Leah Milne offers a new way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in contemporary works by authors with marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care—a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and “an act of political warfare.” In engaging in this battle, the works discussed in this study confront limitations on ethnicity and nationality wrought by the institutionalization of multiculturalism. They also focus on identities whose mere presence on the cultural landscape is often perceived as vindictive or willful. Analyzing recent texts by Carmen Maria Machado, Louise Erdrich, Ruth Ozeki, Toni Morrison, and more, Milne connects works across cultures and nationalities in search of reasons for this recent trend of depicting writers as characters in multicultural texts. Her exploration...

Critical Hits

Autor: Various

Número de Páginas: 260

'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power 'Critical Hits is an exciting, original and rich collection. It made me want to read more, to write more, and - I admit without shame - to play more' New Statesman Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have been part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits is a celebration of play and playfulness, and the lasting impact of videogames. Composed of sharp, impassioned, and inquisitive essays, this collection begins with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado and presents video games through the eyes of eighteen writer-gamers as they straddle real and artificial worlds. In games, they find solace from illness and grief, test ideas about language, bodies, race, and technology, and see their experiences and identities reflected in-or complicated by-the interactive virtual realities they inhabit. From a deep dive into "portal fantasy" games by Charlie Jane Anders and a comic by MariNaomi about her time as a video game producer, to the overlaps in gaming and poetry by Stephen Sexton, Critical Hits...

The Low, Low Woods (2019-2020) #4

Autor: Joe Hill , Carmen Maria Machado

Número de Páginas: 28

El and Octavia’s paths converge in an unexpected and bizarre way. They come together again just in time to witness a truly horrendous sight: a mob of Skinless Men erupting from the fiery fissures of Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania.

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen

Autor: Ellen Datlow

Número de Páginas: 400

From Ellen Datlow—“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times—comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Mira Grant, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventeenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Tananarive Due, Carmen Maria Machado, Joe Hill, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.