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Birth Canal
Dias Novita Wuri
Written by Thuy Dinh, originally published in Asymptote
Sep 28, 2023
Birth Canal
Dias Novita Wuri
Written by Thuy Dinh, originally published in Asymptote
Sep 28, 2023
To resist, the women in Birth Canal—as object of desire, porn actress, and sex worker—must stare back in their own fashion. . .
In an intricately woven novel of generational legacies, untold inheritances, and our multivalent history, Indonesian author Dias Novita Wuri navigates the matrixes of family and geography with a profound and powerful voice. Tracing a passage of interconnected lives across nations, regimes, territories, and spectacles, Birth Canal is a testament to both the visible and invisible impressions that our bodies make upon the world, a challenge to the archetypal presentations of sexuality that inflict their discreet violences, and a documentation of courage and perseverence.
In an intricately woven novel of generational legacies, untold inheritances, and our multivalent history, Indonesian author Dias Novita Wuri navigates the matrixes of family and geography with a profound and powerful voice. Tracing a passage of interconnected lives across nations, regimes, territories, and spectacles, Birth Canal is a testament to both the visible and invisible impressions that our bodies make upon the world, a challenge to the archetypal presentations of sexuality that inflict their discreet violences, and a documentation of courage and perseverence.
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