Sign-In
Cart
The Letters of Mina Harker
Paperback
Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
EroticaGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN10: 1635901596
ISBN13: 9781635901597
Publisher: Semiotexte
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781635901597
Publisher: Semiotexte
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Bellamy's debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker's Dracula and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s. Hypocrisy's not the problem, I think, it's allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into--how does one know when to stop? KK says that Dodie has the advantage because she's physical and I'm only psychic. ... The truth is: everyone is adopted. My true mother wore a turtleneck and a long braid down her back, drove a Karmann Ghia, drank Chianti in dark corners, fucked Gregroy Corso ...
--Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker First published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy's debut novel The Letters of Mina Harker sought to resuscitate the central female character from Bram Stoker's Dracula and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s--a woman not unlike Dodie Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four different men in a series of letters. Vampirizing Mina Harker, Bellamy turns the novel into a laboratory: a series of attempted transmutations between the two women in which the real story occurs in the gaps and the slippages. Lampooning the intellectual theory-speak of that era, Bellamy's narrator fights to inhabit her own sexuality despite feelings of vulnerability and destruction. Stylish but ruthlessly unpretentious, The Letters of Mina Harker was Bellamy's first major claim to the literary space she would come to inhabit.
Also from
Bellamy, Dodie
Also in
Erotica
Beautiful Carnage (Book 1 of the Dark Empire Books)
Peckham, Caroline
Valenti, Susanne
Peckham &. Valenti
Hardcover
$26.59
Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-Volume Boxed Set
James, E. L.
Paperback
$45.59
Over 100 Sex Positions: FOR GUARANTEED SATISFACTION (Including Oral and Anal)
Albert, Divine
Paperback
$13.19
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Box Set: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty; Beauty's Punishment; Beauty's Release
Roquelaure, A. N.
Paperback
$51.30