{"product_id":"daughter-isotope-paperback","title":"Daughter Isotope - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVidhu Aggarwal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaughter Isotope is a book of \"hybrid\" poems that speaks to multiple iterations of \"daughter\" tropes across generations, national borders, and timescales. Central to the question of the Daughter Isotope is: What is a collective archive? within a global, disparate, migrant cultural space. DI is organized in a series of four \"clouds,\" calling up the vague, penetrable borders of our digital lives, both searching and searchable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the manuscript, the poems operate as types of search engines that test the boundaries of often overlapping archives or \"clouds\" that make up diasporic experience. Starting with a series of poems based on the Mahabharata, an \"encyclopedic\" Sanskrit epic-cloud about an apocalyptic war composed over centuries, the organization of the manuscript is based off of South Asian polyvocal storytelling traditions. Like Donna Haraway's cyborg, a \"daughter\" gender could be seen as any \"child\" or subject under a rigid paternal order - whether Hindu nationalism or U.S. exceptionalism - whose filiation is in question. Dispersed through the manuscript are multiple versions\/clouds of Draupadi, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Krishna, Michael Jackson, and the aspirational figure of @agirl, among others uncertain \"daughters.\" Poems interrogate the stability of various \"daughter\" genders through myth, online personas, computer gaming, nuclear physics, and artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735602663487,"sku":"9781946031907","price":23.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f98db27c5f4cb37d7100f6f56a02aaa2.webp?v=1765144045","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/daughter-isotope-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}