Human Subjects

Human Subjects is a collection of eight short stories that explore the role of identity, otherness, and personhood in contemporary life. Two sex workers try to buy new faces after a botched plastic surgery, a young girl struggles to find her place in a religious sweat cult, mixed race orphans commun...

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Main Author:	Ken, Stephanie Wong
Format:	Others
Published:	PDXScholar 2017
Subjects:	Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction Other (Philosophy) > Fiction Sex workers > Fiction Racially mixed people > Fiction Fiction
Online Access:	https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4023 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5032&context=open_access_etds

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spelling	ndltd-pdx.edu-oai-pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu-open_access_etds-50322019-10-20T05:21:56Z Human Subjects Ken, Stephanie Wong Human Subjects is a collection of eight short stories that explore the role of identity, otherness, and personhood in contemporary life. Two sex workers try to buy new faces after a botched plastic surgery, a young girl struggles to find her place in a religious sweat cult, mixed race orphans commune with ghosts in a Korean orphanage, best friends embark on a road trip across America in search of a mother. Human Subjects works to tell stories about deeply felt wants and desires from perspectives at the margins, caught in a state of in between. This collection grapples with what it means to be a subject, and what it means to be subjected. 2017-05-26T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4023 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5032&context=open_access_etds Dissertations and Theses PDXScholar Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction Other (Philosophy) -- Fiction Sex workers -- Fiction Racially mixed people -- Fiction Fiction
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description	Human Subjects is a collection of eight short stories that explore the role of identity, otherness, and personhood in contemporary life. Two sex workers try to buy new faces after a botched plastic surgery, a young girl struggles to find her place in a religious sweat cult, mixed race orphans commune with ghosts in a Korean orphanage, best friends embark on a road trip across America in search of a mother. Human Subjects works to tell stories about deeply felt wants and desires from perspectives at the margins, caught in a state of in between. This collection grapples with what it means to be a subject, and what it means to be subjected.
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