
Sweetlust : Stories
by Asja Bakić
Title:
Sweetlust : Stories
Author:
Asja Bakić
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
224 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN-13:
9781952177729
EAN:
9781952177729
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
374
Dimensions (mm):
201 x 127 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
The eleven stories in Sweetlust interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.In a dystopian world with no men, women are 'rehabilitated' at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.Asja Bakić deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut Mars, Bakić once again upends her characters' convictions and identities-and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.











