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Daughter Isotope

Vidhu Aggarwal

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English
Operating System
22 October 2021
"Daughter Isotope is a book of ""hybrid"" poems that speaks to multiple iterations of ""daughter"" tropes across generations, national borders, and timescales. Central to the question of the Daughter Isotope is: What is a collective archive? within a global, disparate, migrant cultural space. DI is organized in a series of four ""clouds,"" calling up the vague, penetrable borders of our digital lives, both searching and searchable.

Throughout the manuscript, the poems operate as types of search engines that test the boundaries of often overlapping archives or ""clouds"" that make up diasporic experience. Starting with a series of poems based on the Mahabharata, an ""encyclopedic"" Sanskrit epic-cloud about an apocalyptic war composed over centuries, the organization of the manuscript is based off of South Asian polyvocal storytelling traditions. Like Donna Haraway's cyborg, a ""daughter"" gender could be seen as any ""child"" or subject under a rigid paternal order - whether Hindu nationalism or U.S. exceptionalism - whose filiation is in question. Dispersed through the manuscript are multiple versions/clouds of Draupadi, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Krishna, Michael Jackson, and the aspirational figure of @agirl, among others uncertain ""daughters."" Poems interrogate the stability of various ""daughter"" genders through myth, online personas, computer gaming, nuclear physics, and artificial intelligence."
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Imprint:   Operating System
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   299g
ISBN:   9781946031907
ISBN 10:   1946031909
Pages:   162
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Vidhu Aggarwal's poetry and multimedia practices engage with world-building, video, and graphic media, drawing mythic schemas from popular culture, science, and ancient texts. Her poetry book, The Trouble with Humpadori (2016), imagines a cosmic mythological space for marginalized transnational subjects. Avatara, a chapbook from Portable @Yo-Yo Labs Press, is situated in a post-apocalyptic gaming world where A.I.'s play at being gods. She has published in the Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Aster(ix) Journal, Poemelon, and Leonardo, among other journals. She is currently engaging in a ""cloud poetics,"" as a way of thinking about personal, collective, and digital archives as a collaborate process with comic artists, dancers, and video artists. A Djerassi resident and Kundiman fellow, she teaches at Rollins College."

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