{"product_id":"9780571346615","title":"Who Is Mary Sue?","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Collins, Sophie \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLanguage\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 February 2018 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 112 pages\u003cbr\u003e132 x 197 x 10 | 138g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE MICHAEL MURPHY MEMORIAL PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEIn the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. Who Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925490073859,"sku":"9780571346615","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571346615.jpg?v=1731417750","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780571346615","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}