Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-73).
Contents:
The field -- The perfect traveler -- The green lady -- The shadow beast -- The search -- The knight of the beak -- Notebook (I) -- The wedding of the graphis -- The clan of the claw -- The early ones -- The collector of treasures -- The book of the kryl -- Notebook (II) -- Beauty -- The sexy zebra -- The nanny -- Monsters of the fairy kingdom -- The huntress -- Notebook (III) -- Monsters of compassion -- The abyss -- Everyday monsters -- The scribes -- Nameless -- Liber monstrorum -- Self-portrait.
Summary:
"An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday--Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
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