- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Identity (Psychology), Women
"On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication"--
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Intimate, spare, prestige and bleak.
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Cristina Rivera Garza
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 346
- Publisher
- Feminist Press, Feminist Press at the City University of New York
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781558613928
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