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Aliens and Anorexia, New Edition
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9781584351269
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Semiotexte The Limited
ISBN-10
1584351268
ISBN-13
9781584351269
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167481196
Product Key Features
Book Title
Aliens and Anorexia, New Edition
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Contemporary Women, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Semiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-362212
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
A novel about failure, empathy, and sadness, with a cast of characters that includes Simone Weil, Paul Thek, and the author herself. First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia , defined a female form of chance that is both emotional and radical. Unfolding like a set of Chinese boxes, with storytelling and philosophy informing each other, the novel weaves together the lives of earnest visionaries and failed artists. Its characters include Simone Weil, the first radical philosopher of sadness; the artist Paul Thek; Kraus herself; and "Africa," Kraus's virtual S&M partner, who is shooting a big-budget Hollywood film in Namibia while Kraus holes up in the Northwest woods to chronicle the failure of Gravity & Grace , her own low-budget independent film. In Aliens & Anorexia , Kraus makes a case for empathy as the ultimate perceptive tool, and reclaims anorexia from the psychoanalytic girl-ghetto of poor "self-esteem." Anorexia, Kraus writes, could be an attempt to leave the body altogether: a rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food. As Palle Yourgrau writes in the book's new foreword, "Kraus's rescue operation for aliens like Weil from behind enemy lines on planet Earth is a gift, if, in the end, like all good deeds, it remains--as Weil herself would be the first to insist--a fool's errand."
LC Classification Number
PS3561.R2873
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