5/25/2023 0 Comments Embassytown by China MiévilleThat’s certainly one aspect of the allegory that is suggested by the story. Is the idea of simile and metaphor as powers that can ‘destroy and remake the very language’ of which the protagonist ‘is a piece’, itself a metaphor for the role of ‘writer’ as destroyer and creator of the world of ideas and ‘realities’ that shape society? Today she chats with us about her essay ‘ Refiguring fiction: Gender and China Miéville’s Embassytown’, featured in Overland 204. Her second novel, A Common Loss, is due to appear in January 2012. Tranter’s first novel, The Legacy, was listed for the Miles Franklin in 2010. Fiction writer, poet, essayist and literary critic, Kirsten Tranter, grew up in Sydney’s literary atmosphere and studied at the University of Sydney, but it was at New York’s Rutgers University that she completed her PhD in English on Renaissance poetry.
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