This Young Monster

Author: Charlie Fox

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781925704143
  • : Brow Books
  • : NewSouth Books
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  • : February 2019
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  • : March 2019
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  • : Charlie Fox
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Description

This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? FromTwin Peaks to Leigh Bowery, Harmony Korine to Alice in Wonderland,This Young Monster gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called 'monsterhood'. Ready or not, here they come...