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Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse
how gender deviance imagines post-sovereign presents and futures
the book also includes a translator’s note in the form of a letter to her author and friend
estrangement
Who is Mary Sue? Moten Fusing the personal and theSophie Collins In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes