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Mercenary English seizes "the politics of language" and foregrounds the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism "missing women."

Produktbeschreibung
Mercenary English seizes "the politics of language" and foregrounds the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism "missing women."
Autorenporträt
Mercedes Eng is a prairie-born poet of Chinese and settler descent living in Vancouver on the unceded lands of the x¿m¿¿k¿¿y¿¿m, S¿wx¿wú7mesh, and s¿l¿ilw¿tä¿. She is the author of my yt mama, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (winner of the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) and Mercenary English. Her writing has appeared in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers¿ Poetry, Jacket 2, The Asian American Literary Review, The Capilano Review, The Abolitionist, and r/ally (No One Is Illegal), Survaillance, and M¿aidez (Press Release). Mercedes was recently the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence and a Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She is an assistant professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she organizes the On Edge reading series.