Speculative Fiction
Monster Portraits
2018·84 pages
A hybrid of text and art, Monster Portraits explores otherness through a Somali-American lens, blending the monstrous and familiar.
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A hybrid of text and art, Monster Portraits explores otherness through a Somali-American lens, blending the monstrous and familiar.
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Fiction. Art. Hybrid Genre. Relentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, MONSTER PORTRAITS investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. 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...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Monstrous body imagery; themes of fragmentation and racial violence
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Fantastic monsters and unknown mythos as literary imagery
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult or demonology content
Political content
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Central themes of otherness, race, immigration, and social division
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Recurring themes of racial violence, oppression, and bodily violation
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