Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl Essays

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl Essays | 11.76 MB

Title: Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl
Author: Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Category: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays
Language: English | 176 Pages | ISBN: 1644453738

Description:
Mollusks’ innermost selves are absolute secrets because, not only do they hide in shells or distant habitats, but also that’s just how it is with innermost selves.
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl collects Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s reminiscences, dreams, investigations, and experiments in being with small invertebrates whose vulnerability and creativity inspire radical reimaginings of Earthlinghood. In graceful linked essays, Wong wonders: What constitutes a self if a starfish can twist off one of his arms to explore the seafloor on its own? What is an animate being, considering a living snail is also an inanimate shell? What does love mean to a jellyfish, or time to an octopus? Her encounters with nonhuman animals reshape her language into different forms from collage to fragments, and prompt uncommon engagements with various texts. She looks behind words like "invasive" and "endling" in scientific articles and in poetry, questions natural selection with a…

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