Monster Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monster Portraits write by Sofia Samatar. This book was released on 2018. Monster Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance write by Touba Ghadessi. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The study traces how these monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. The works examined here point to the intricate cultural, religious, ethical, and scientific perceptions of monstrous individuals who were fixtures in contemporary courts.
Monster Mama
Monster Mama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monster Mama write by Liz Rosenberg. This book was released on 1997. Monster Mama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.
My Favorite Thing is Monsters
My Favorite Thing is Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Favorite Thing is Monsters write by Emil Ferris. This book was released on 2017-02-15. My Favorite Thing is Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
Just Like Me
Just Like Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just Like Me write by Harriet Rohmer. This book was released on 1997. Just Like Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present self-portraits and brief descriptions that explore their varied ethnic origins, their work, and their feelings about themselves.
