{"product_id":"reverse-cowgirl-paperback","title":"Reverse Cowgirl - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother genre for another gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life not knowing why you only felt at home in your body at peak moments of drugs and sex? What if you expended your days avoiding an absence, a hole in being? \u003ci\u003eReverse Cowgirl\u003c\/i\u003e is not exactly a memoir. The author doesn't, in the end, have any answers as to who she really is or was, although maybe she figures out what she could become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling from Sydney in the 1980s to New York today, \u003ci\u003eReverse Cowgirl\u003c\/i\u003e is a comedy of errors, chronicling the author's failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century. Finding that the established narratives of being transgender don't seem to apply to her, Wark borrows from the genres of autofiction, fictocriticism, and new narrative to create a writing practice that can discover the form of a life outside existing accounts of trans experience: an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcKenzie Wark (she\/her), awarded the 2019 Thoma Prize for writing in digital art, is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Hacker Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Beach Beneath the Street\u003c\/i\u003e. Wark's correspondence with Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) as \u003ci\u003eI'm Very Into You\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769602310432,"sku":"9781635901184","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ccb1998a4c2167dcc3dfc65b23556770.webp?v=1780351716","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/reverse-cowgirl-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}