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Book

Apsara engine

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL SOM (CEN)

Edition

First Feminist Press edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : The Feminist Press, 2020.

Physical Description

237 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Summary

"In turns both fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection with South Asian roots is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity. The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak."--

Contents

  • a. Come back to me
  • b. Throat
  • c. Meena and Aparna
  • d. Apsara engine
  • e. Pleasure palace
  • f. Swandive
  • g. Love song
  • h. I can see it in you.

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