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Ysabelle Cheung
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Hong Kong Noir
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2018
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The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong
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Patchwork Dolls
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“But, as we know, there can be reckoning when there is a lack of information in the first place.
Language does not heal terror, but if the language around the terror does not even exist, what then?”
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Language does not heal terror, but if the language around the terror does not even exist, what then?”
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“The film we were watching is filled with explosions, screams, buildings crumbling onscreen like a shatter of dust on a dirt road. There is a scene in the last third of the film where a vessel of limited capacity is suddenly available. Getting on it ensures your ticket to survival, or freedom — whatever the end game is. “Women and children first, women and children,” the men call out.
There are several things happening here. First, male expendability in terms of sacrifice; violent heroism, Secondly, female expendability, but on a more sinister level: an ambiguous group of fertile women is called freedom and then never permitted any other name or purpose. Although they will have escaped, in this new other life they are expected to reproduce nations and values, culturally, symbolically, literally. This, I think, is why they have been allowed to survive.”
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There are several things happening here. First, male expendability in terms of sacrifice; violent heroism, Secondly, female expendability, but on a more sinister level: an ambiguous group of fertile women is called freedom and then never permitted any other name or purpose. Although they will have escaped, in this new other life they are expected to reproduce nations and values, culturally, symbolically, literally. This, I think, is why they have been allowed to survive.”
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“Would you be surprised if I told you that before writing this piece, I made incisions in my skin and blue came out? What I mean to say is: escape, at least from the inside out, is not yet possible.”
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