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Jawbone
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Translated Literature! “Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?” Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous “creepypastas,” Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.
Jawbone
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from Opus Dei Delta Academy for Girls convene after school, Annelise always spins the scariest stories and devises the riskiest games. Wearing her crocodile-jawbone crown, she leads them in rituals to her invented god: the rhinestone-encrusted firefly, the wandering womb, the mother pond of anacondas. Even more thrilling is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare that blurs the boundaries between affection and violence. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Obsessed with imitating her dead mother and immobilized by past traumas, each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. In her English-language debut, Ecuadorian author Mónica Ojeda crafts an ominous, multivocal novel about adolescence, obsession, horror, and the fine line between fear and desire.
Mandíbula
Una adolescente fanática del horror y de las creepypastas (historias de terror que circulan por internet) despierta maniatada en una cabaña en medio del bosque. Su secuestradora no es una desconocida, sino su maestra de Lengua y Literatura, una mujer joven a quien ella y sus amigas han atormentado durante meses en un colegio de élite del Opus Dei. Pero pronto los motivos de ese secuestro se revelarán mucho más oscuros que el bullying a una maestra: un perturbador amor juvenil, una traición inesperada y algunos ritos secretos e iniciáticos inspirados en esas historias virales y terroríficas gestadas en Internet.
The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border
Much has been debated about the presence of undocumented workers along the South Texas border, but these debates often overlook the more complete dimension: the region’s longstanding, undocumented economies as a whole. Borderlands commerce that evades government scrutiny can be categorized into informal economies (the unreported exchange of legal goods and services) or underground economies (criminal economic activities that, obviously, occur without government oversight). Examining long-term study, observation, and participation in the border region, with the assistance of hundreds of locally embedded informants, The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border presents uniq...
Writing Manuals for the Masses
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.
IRL
Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.
Las voladoras
Criaturas que se suben a los tejados y alzan el vuelo, una adolescente apasionada por la sangre, una profesora que recoge la cabeza de la vecina en su jardín, una chica incapaz de separarse de la dentadura de su padre, dos gemelas ruidistas en un festival de música experimental, mujeres que se lanzan desde lo alto de una montaña, terremotos apocalípticos, un chamán que escribe un conjuro para revivir a su hija. Las voladoras reúne ocho cuentos que se ubican en ciudades, pueblos, páramos, volcanes donde la violencia y el misticismo, lo terrenal y lo celeste, pertenecen a un mismo plano ritual y poético. Mónica Ojeda nos vuela la cabeza con un gótico andino y nos muestra, una vez más, que el horror y la belleza pertenecen a una misma familia. "Una de las más poderosas novelistas latinoamericanas actuales", Carlos Pardo, Babelia "Puede llegar a ser adictiva", Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico de Catalunya "Una de las más grandes promesas de las nuevas generaciones de escritores latinoamericanos", Juan Ángel Juristo, ABC "Un soplo de aire fresco sacude la literatura latinoamericana", Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia
Historia de la leche
En Historia de la leche Mónica Ojeda retoma un mito de la tradición bíblica –Caín, Abel y su disputa fratricida por el amor del padre– y, en la línea de Una noche con Hamlet de Vladimir Holan o de Antígona González de Sara Uribe, lo reescribe desde el presente, indagando, como ya hizo en su novela Mandíbula, en la extraña violencia de las relaciones femeninas y familiares. Para alojarla en sus propios huesos y reconocer todo lo ajeno que la habita, la voz poética mata a Mabel, su hermana, estableciendo un diálogo con ella, con la madre y con el padre, mientras se enfrenta, casi en trance, a lo que queda: la culpa, la memoria que hiere, el terrible silencio materno, el espacio espantosamente abierto entre la madre y la hija sobreviviente.
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