Cockfight (eBook)

Maria Fernanda Ampuero (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
The Feminist Press at CUNY (Verlag)
978-1-936932-83-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This Ecuadorian short story collection exploresdomestic horrors and everyday violence, a grotesque, unflinching portrait oftwenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly).Ampueros literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects. Yuri Herrera, author ofSigns Preceding the End of the WorldNamed one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by theNew York Times en Espaol,Cockfightis the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist Mara Fernanda Ampuero.In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A familys maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas.Heralding a brutal and singular new voice,Cockfightexplores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.6.2020
• Übersetzer: Frances Riddle
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Schlagworte: Coming of Age • Courageous women • cycle of abuse • Ecuador • Ecuadorian short stories • exploitative power • Family history • family tensions • Feminist fiction • feminist short story collection • Gender Inequality • Gender Studies • Latin America • Literary Horror • portrait of family life • Power dynamics • Sex Discrimination • short fiction • short story collection • Surrealism • trauma stories • twenty-first-century • violent moments • women-led • women's issues
• ISBN-10: 1-936932-83-0 / 1936932830
• ISBN-13: 978-1-936932-83-2 / 9781936932832