Memewars

By Adeena Karasick

Merging autobiography, criticism, feminist theory and poetry in an economy of desire, M mewars puts a poetics of rupture, displacement, obsession and exile into praxis. This text writes against a sexist, imperialist discourse of mastery and idealization. It challenges the mythologies of cohesion, autonomy and stable identity--the capitalist vision of literary originality, where ownership is of prime value.

As a book that calls into question beginnings and ends, M mewars has no closure and no "back" cover; six individual texts work from two separate beginnings: they clash in the "middle"--an unstable and shifting "centre." However through a self-reflexive practice of authorization, intention is delegitimized as the centre-piece decentres, and becomes yet another beginning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889223440
• ISBN13: 9780889223448
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"