Bad Language - Couverture souple

Mayer, So

 
9781913512798: Bad Language
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1913512797 ISBN 13 : 9781913512798
Editeur : Peninsula Press Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used - and abused - in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we 'make ourselves up' in language, when words themselves are encoded by a dominant culture that insists we see ourselves as powerless listeners rather than active speakers? Examining the semantic traps of their own multi-lingual childhood - and taking in texts from the Torah to Grimms' Fairytales, from protest march bust cards to the works of Ursula K. Le Guin - Mayer asks who gets to speak, and who is forced into silence. Bad Language calls out the harm that words can do, while searching for crafty ways that we can collectively reclaim language for protest and pleasure.

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À propos de l?auteur

SO MAYER is a writer, editor, bookseller and organiser. Truth & Dare, their first collection of speculative fiction, was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness and Edge Hill Short Story prizes. With Sarah Shin, they co-edited Ursula K. Le Guin, Space Crone, winner of the 2024 Locus Award for non-fiction. Bad Language is their second book for Peninsula, after A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing.

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Éditeur
Peninsula Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1913512797
ISBN 13 
9781913512798
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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Personne responsable
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