num_pages: 272
description: This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell transform their bodies anger their elders and show their audience dark disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness disability children and adolescents? From Twin Peaks to Leigh Bowery Harmony Korine to Alice in Wonderland This Young Monster gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called monsterhood. Ready or not here they come...
language: English
title: This Young Monster
publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions