Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
$45.95
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
19 December 2023
Summary
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang’s trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book Carceral …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901924 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1635901928 |
| Author: | Jackie Wang |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 19 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
“This book is less a statement than a feverish effort. Wang moves less like a critic or curator than a sister and maker of art…”
—Amber Husain, Bookforum
About The Author
Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; the critical essay collection Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018); and the chapbooks The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming (2018) and Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (2016). Her research is on racial capitalism, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police.
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