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Monster portraits / images by Del Samatar ; text by Sofia Samatar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samatar, Sofia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monsters.
- Monsters--Pictorial works.
- Monsters--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, Inc., [2018]
- Summary:
- Relentlessly Original and Brilliantly Hybrid, Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny, imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the 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 claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts. Del Samatar's drawings conjure beings who drag worlds in their wake. World Fantasy Award-winning author Sofia Samatar responds with allusive, critical, and ecstatic meditations. Together they have created a secret history of the mixed-race child, a guide to the beasts of an unknown mythos, and a dreamer's iconography. The monstrous never looked so simultaneously haunting and familiar. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Field 2
- The Perfect Traveler 4
- The Green Lady 7
- The Shadow Beast 10
- The Search 11
- The Knight of the Beak 15
- Notebook (I) 17
- The Wedding of the Graphis 19
- The Clan of the Claw 22
- The Early Ones 24
- The Collector of Treasures 27
- The Book of the Kryl 31
- Notebook (II) 33
- Beauty 34
- The Sexy Zebra 37
- The Nanny 38
- Monsters of the Fairy Kingdom 40
- The Huntress 43
- Notebook (III) 45
- Monsters of Compassion 47
- The Abyss 50
- Everyday Monsters 53
- The Scribes 55
- Nameless 57
- Liber Monstrorum 60
- Self-Portrait 63.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Samatar, Sofia. Monster portraits.
- ISBN:
- 9781941628102
- 1941628109
- OCLC:
- 1012687646
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