{"product_id":"chimeras-paperback","title":"Chimeras - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTegan Zimmerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her debut poetry book, Tegan Zimmerman recuperates and (re)conceives the mythical figure of the chimera to explore maternity, monstrosity, labour, and reproduction. Conceiving chimeras as the maternal and in the plural, not the singular, \u003ci\u003eChimeras\u003c\/i\u003e engages repetition and mimicry to critique the western philosophical-literary canon's paternal roots, grappling with Marx, Plato, Shakespeare, and Nietzsche. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eChimeras\u003ci\u003e brilliantly explores the fragility of identity categories, the slipperiness between the contradictory roles assigned to the maternal: goddess-lover-wife-mother-crone-monster. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eTegan Zimmerman (PhD) holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute at Mount Saint Vincent University (2024-2026) and the Editor of \u003ci\u003eAtlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice\u003c\/i\u003e. She specializes in contemporary gender theory and women's writing that centralizes the maternal and mother-daughter relations. She recently completed a Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Residency at Jampolis Cottage N.S. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as \u003ci\u003eFeminist Theory, MELUS\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWomen's Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the author of \u003ci\u003eMatria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past and Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime\u003c\/i\u003e, a co-edited collection with Odile Ferly. She has two beloved Pugs named Kosmo and Canto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 62\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 7.55 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46194512756933,"sku":"9781834210230","price":29.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/hE9MRBc7Sk9781834210230.webp?v=1778230987","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/chimeras-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}