Carrier Bag Fiction
Publication series Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet), Volume 6
Editors: Sarah Shin, Mathias Zeiske
Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig, 2021
88 pages, German and English edition
color illustrations, paperback with folded dust cover
ISBN DE: 978-3-95905-462-1
ISBN EN: 978-3-95905-463-8
Price: 10 €
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What if humanity’s primary inventions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding. With contributions by Sophia Al-Maria, Season Butler, Federico Campagna, Dorothee Elmiger, Laurel Halo, Ursula K. Le Guin, Taylor Le Melle, Enis Maci, Nisha Ramayya, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Sin Wai Kin fka Victoria Sin, Himali Singh Soin, Jenna Sutela and Anna Tsing
Table of contents:
Introduction
Sarah Shin, Mathias Zeiske
Nisha Ramayya
Let’s Leap To the Place of the Two Pools
Anna Tsing im Gespräch mit Sarah Shin
World Without Heroes
Laurel Halo
nimiia log
Jenna Sutela
What the Bag Is Made Of
Enis Maci
Taylor Le Melle
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ordinary Animals
Season Butler
for asinykwe
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Hundun
Sin Wai Kin fka Victoria Sin
Human
Federico Campagna
Himali Singh Soin
The Problem of the Hunter / (Magic) Pocket Theory of Fiction
Dorothee Elmiger
Little Oom
Sophia Al-Maria
