Because the Sun
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: May 18, 2021
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781552454237
Description: "Camus&#x2019;s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun. Obsessed with both Camus&#x2019;s L&#x2019;e tranger and Thelma and Louise, Because the Sun considers violence under the blazing sun. Starting with Meursault&#x2019;s murder of a man on the beach as he is  ́pressed ́ by the blinding sun and considering the gendered violence against the victim&#x2019;s sister, Sarah Burgoyne goes on to consider Louise pulling the trigger on Thelma&#x2019;s assailant &#x2013; all while thinking about the sun, that  ́unremarkable star ́ that is a material symbol of pain, an affective backlog we&#x2019;re slung under, pushing through desert after desert. Because the Sun&#x2019;s pastiche of personal and  ́objective ́ (often scientific) voices strives to embody both stylistic and formal  ́relentlessness ́ by teasing out discursive tonalities that blend and merge into each other, generating a blinding effect, like looking into the sun."--