Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
Published on 21. November 2023
408 pages
978-1-63590-193-1 (ISBN)
Description
The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book Carceral Capitalism. Alien Daughters charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an "odd girl" from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, Alien Daughters is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang's singular self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot's Fool, with a leap of faith.
Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book Carceral Capitalism. Alien Daughters charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an "odd girl" from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, Alien Daughters is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang's singular self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot's Fool, with a leap of faith.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2023
Semiotext (E)
€17.00
Available immediately
Person
Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; the critical essay collection Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018); and the chapbooks The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming (2018) and Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (2016). Her research is on racial capitalism, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- I. 2006-10: THE HARD-FEMME YEARS
- The Vertigo of Falling #2: Life in Kunming
- The Adventures of Loneberry
- On Being Hard Femme
- We Are Good Enough
- II. 2010-12: THE PUNK-HOUSE YEARS
- Channeling the Alien Plath Girl: Emotional Drag/Porn/Excess
- The Phallic-Titty Manifesto: Queer Sex and the Naming of Parts
- Negative Feminism, Antisocial Queer Theory, and the Politics of Hope
- In Search of Nobody's Muse (Not Even Mine)
- Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns: The Cosmic Vision of Refbatch
- The Skin-Cloth: Race, Fashion, Hygiene, Writing, and Embodied Movement through Space
- On Hand Jobs, AWP, the Internet, Truck Drivers, and Embodied Living
- Notes from Berlin
- Make Mantra of American Language Now
- Birds, Orphans, and Fools by Juraj Jakubisko
- Hi. Just Breaking In to Get My Free Brainscan!- Queen of the Filchers (Only from the Bad Guys)
- I Tripped, We Laughed. Let Me In! Brain Damage
- Synchronicity // Departure // Divergence // Remembrance
- Aesthetic Forms of Respect for the Status Quo Instill in the Exploited a Mood of Submission and Inhibition: Frantz Fanon, Violence, and Writing
- Epistolary Review: Dodie Bellamy, the buddhist
- The Suicide of the Other Jackie Wang, the Sky Bed, What Is the Meaning of This Energy That We Radiate
- All Joy Lives inside Violence
- Asexuality & Demisexuality: Queer or Antiqueer?
- III. 2012-13: THE DESERT YEARS
- Regrow Your Spine
- The Tumblrization of Everyday Life
- Her Brain Was Always Full of Seizuring Worms
- Compensatory Sadism
- Questions I've Been Asking Myself about Sex and Eroticism
- Future Anterior: The Grammar of Survival?
- Wishing Moon Across My Face
- Aliens as a Form of Life: Imagining the Avant-Garde
- Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
- Queering Jackie O, American Royalty / American Outcasts, Lana Del Rey's White-Girl Archive of Female Suffering, and Graceless Lost Girls
- IV. 2014-16: THE GETTING-MY-SHIT-TOGETHER YEARS
- Lonely Wolves on the Floor of the World
- Entropy Magazine Interview
- Desiring Defectively as a Form of Life
- Life Shit
- What Is This Orgy of Song
- Mask Magazine Interview
- The Fragility of Friendship (and Everything Else)
- Writing the Fool
- Peplophoros as the World with Her Head Lopped Off
- Venus as a Bull: Notes on Björk
- T Clutch Fleischmann and Jackie Wang on Queer Essays
- The Future Is Now: Speech for the 2015 Pen World Voices Festival Opening-Night Panel
- The Distortion Principle: On Sickness and Perception
- Some Thoughts on Writing Platforms, Extemporaneous Thinking, Speed, Sparrow // The Shape of a Day Is Liquid
- Notes on the Cosmic Yes: Paris and Beyond
- Blood-Moon Notes: Saint Petersburg and Beyond
- Twists and Turns in the Bowels of the Neon Dragon: A Dream Maze
- Acknowledgments
