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atmospheric interior fiction
Author_Carmen GimA(C)nez Smith
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dreamlike literary fiction
emotionally charged dream logic
emotionally charged surrealism
emotionally complex girlhood literature
emotionally haunted narratives
emotionally layered short pieces
emotionally resonant speculative fiction
emotionally textured fantasy
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feminist-leaned mythic retellings
fractured fairy tale aesthetics
girl-centered surreal fiction
girlhood interiority themes
hybrid fairy tale structure
hybrid reality-fantasy prose
imaginative escape narratives
imaginative reconstruction of childhood
intimate psychological portraiture
introspective speculative voice
inventive hybrid narratives
inventive narrative form
inventive prose style
language as sanctuary themes
language-driven storytelling
linguistic self-fashioning
literary exploration of identity
literary fabulism
lyrical narrative experiments
magical realism with American grit
metaphorical refuge in imagination
modern folktale reinvention
modern mythopoetic writing
mythic reinterpretation in contemporary life
poetic storytelling voice
psychologically rich heroine
reality-bending narrative fragments
reimagined childhood mythos
strange and beautiful storytelling
surreal American microcosms
surreal coming-of-age stories
symbolic escape stories
symbolic fantasy elements
tender yet unsettling narratives
troubled family dynamics in fiction
uncanny domestic landscapes
uncanny ordinary settings
uncanny realism
whimsical darkness in literature
Product details
- ISBN 9781558499492
- Weight: 145g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2012
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of a girl whose prince is a deadbeat dad and whose escape into a fantasy world is also an escape into language, beauty, and the surreal.
Carmen Giménez Smith is the publisher of Noemi Press, the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at New Mexico State University. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry - Odalisqu.
