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This Young Monster

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This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? From TWIN PEAKS to Leigh Bowery, Harmony Korine to Alice in Wonderland, This Young Monster gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called `monsterhood'. Ready or not, here they come….
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261 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017

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  • olya bakhurhas quoted3 years ago
    he saw sky where the land should be, heard rough beasts howling in his skull and, as his little jackrabbit heart thumped from terror, felt the wind shaking his bones into jelly.
  • olya bakhurhas quoted3 years ago
    Lurid rumours claim that the boys’ deformity is inevitable owing to the circumstances of their conception since a ‘German collector of birds’ or ‘a taxidermist’ raped their mother, as if that crime could shape what emerged from the womb. Unspeakable acts can produce equally unnatural gifts.

    Зловещие слухи утверждают, что уродство мальчиков неизбежно из-за обстоятельств их зачатия, поскольку "немецкий коллекционер птиц" или "таксидермист" изнасиловал их мать, как будто это преступление могло повлиять на то, что появилось из утробы. Невыразимые поступки могут порождать столь же неестественные дары.

  • olya bakhurhas quoted3 years ago
    The ‘inside/outside thing’ is one of the most acute ways of thinking about what a monster is: something from the mind manifesting here, three-dimensional and ferocious. That doesn’t only happen in stories.

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