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Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Publisher: Semiotext (E). Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Author: McKenzie Wark. Title: Reverse Cowgirl. Format: Paperback. Language: English. Item Width: 15mm. Item Length: 138mm.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSemiotexte The Limited

ISBN-101635901189

ISBN-139781635901184

eBay Product ID (ePID)16050401340

Product Key Features

Book TitleReverse Cowgirl

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicSociology / General, Lgbt

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMckenzie Wark

Book SeriesSemiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight8.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-276192

ReviewsWark refuses to call this book a coming-of-age tale, even if it ends up marking her coming-into-identity as a trans woman. If the text may initially feel dystopic in spite of its moments of ecstasy that transcend and descend, it ends in a space of utopic self-invention.-- BOMB --

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal306.76/8092

SynopsisMcKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender- not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self. Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life not knowing why you only felt at home in your body at peak moments of drugs and sex? What if you expended your days avoiding an absence, a hole in being? Reverse Cowgirl is not exactly a memoir. The author doesn't, in the end, have any answers as to who she really is or was, although maybe she figures out what she could become. Traveling from Sydney in the 1980s to New York today, Reverse Cowgirl is a comedy of errors, chronicling the author's failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century. Finding that the established narratives of being transgender don't seem to apply to her, Wark borrows from the genres of autofiction, fictocriticism, and new narrative to create a writing practice that can discover the form of a life outside existing accounts of trans experience- an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self., McKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self. Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life not knowing why you only felt at home in your body at peak moments of drugs and sex? What if you expended your days avoiding an absence, a hole in being? Reverse Cowgirl is not exactly a memoir. The author doesn't, in the end, have any answers as to who she really is or was, although maybe she figures out what she could become. Traveling from Sydney in the 1980s to New York today, Reverse Cowgirl is a comedy of errors, chronicling the author's failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century. Finding that the established narratives of being transgender don't seem to apply to her, Wark borrows from the genres of autofiction, fictocriticism, and new narrative to create a writing practice that can discover the form of a life outside existing accounts of trans experience: an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.

LC Classification NumberHQ77.8.W37A3 2020