Shani, Tai, 2019, Book, Our fatal magic Strange Attractor / MIT. ISBN 9781907222818
Abstract or Description: | Feminist science fiction that anticipates a post-patriarchal future. Our Fatal Magic is a collection of feminist science fiction by contemporary artist Tai Shani. Foregrounding explorations of sensation, experience, and interiority, these twelve fantastical prose vignettes refract their ideas through a series of curious characters, from Medieval Mystics to Cubes of Flesh, from Sirens to Neanderthal Hermaphrodites. Drawing on the speculative narrative strategies pioneered by writers like Marge Piercy, Octavia Butler and others, Our Fatal Magic metabolizes new and necessary fictions from feminist and queer theory to propose an erotic, often violent space of critique in which gender constructs are destabilized, alternative histories imagined, and post-patriarchal futures proposed. |
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Contributors: | Contribution Name RCA ID Contributor Crone, Bridget Artist Katz, Allison |
School or Centre: | School of Arts & Humanities |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Feminism, queer theory, affect, speculative futures, intersectional theory |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2025 15:01 |
Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2025 23:04 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/6564 |
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