Bibliograph

Sad sack, collected writings, Sophia Al-Maria

Type

Label

Sad sack, collected writings, Sophia Al-Maria

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sad sack

Oclc number

1028596745

Responsibility statement

Sophia Al-Maria

Sub title

collected writings

Summary

Sad Sack' is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin's 1986 essay 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction'; opposing "the linear, progressive, Time's-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic." Encompassing more than a decade of work, 'Sad Sack' tracks Al-Maria's speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her "premature" memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of "Gulf Futurism", towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria was Whitechapel Gallery's Writer in Residence 2018; her exhibition BCE (Whitechapel Gallery, January- April 2019), draws on a year of performances and readings, culminating in two short creation myth films: one from the ancient past, originating with the Wayuu tribe in northern Colombia; the other from the distant future, made with Victoria Sin

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