Wake, Siren Maclaughlin Nina
Wake, Siren Maclaughlin Nina In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of mythI am the home of this story. But what happens when the…
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Wake, Siren Maclaughlin Nina
In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of mythI am the home of this story. But what happens when the story of the chase comes in the voice of the woman fleeing her rape? After thousands of years of other people's tellings, of all these different bridges, of words gotten wrong, I'll tell it myself.Seductresses and she-monsters, nymphs and demi-goddesses, populate the famous myths of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
When tales of monstrous transfiguration are sung by those transformed? When the beloved coolly returns the seducer's gaze? In voices both mythic and modern, Wake, Siren revisits each account of love, loss, rape, revenge, and change.
It lays bare the violence that undergirds and lurks in the heart of Ovid's narratives, stories that helped build and perpetuate the distorted