Flèche

Flèche
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 : 9780571348053
ISBN-13 : 057134805X
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Flèche by : Mary Jean Chan

Download or read book Flèche written by Mary Jean Chan and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collection by Mary Jean Chan deftly examines relationships at once conflictual and tender.Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in épée, a competitive sport of the poet's teenage and young adult years. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche') in public and private spaces. Themes of multilingualism, queerness, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge by means of an imagined personal, maternal and national biography, spoken by a polyphony of female voices. The result is a series of poems that are urgent and hard-hitting as Chan keeps her readers on their toes, dazzling and devastating them by turn.


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