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Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(1):47-63; doi:10.1093/cww/vpp010
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Strangers in the Night: Hiromi Goto's Abject Bodies and Hopeful Monsters

Sandra R. G. Almeida

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil srga@ufmg.br

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How will we go about dismantling our desire to read the alien? How will we disrupt our desire to be seduced by that which does not seek to seduce in the first place?

(Goto, "Alien Texts" 268)


   Alien Experiences
 
In "Alien Texts, Alien Seductions: The Context of Colour Full Writing" (1998), a piece of "creative criticism" that mingles fiction and criticism, the Japanese-Canadian writer Hiromi Goto expresses her fascination with "the idea of aliens" (263). As the epigraph above indicates, the author interrogates her recurrent "desire to read the alien" and to be seduced by that which we often tend to reject and ignore. Although Goto accepts the inevitability of such desire, she also acknowledges the need to dismantle and disrupt it. As Christl Verduyn accurately observes, in "Alien . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Gendered Diasporas
 

   The Body-Memory
 

   The Abject Body
 

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