Name: Flèche (en Inglés)
SKU: 51961863
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Author: Mary Jean Chan

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Faber and Faber

Autor

Mary Jean Chan

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780571348046

Categorías

Irlanda
Reino unido
Poesía

Flèche (en Inglés)

Mary Jean Chan (Autor) · Faber and Faber · Tapa Blanda

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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFlèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one's need for safety alongside the desire to shed one's protective armour in order to fully embrace the world.Central to the collection is the figure of the poet's mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence, combined with recollections from Chan's childhood. As complex themes of multilingualism, queerness, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge, so too does a richly imagined personal, maternal and national biography. The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and true, dazzling and devastating by turns.