{"product_id":"the-letters-of-mina-harker-9781635901597","title":"The Letters of Mina Harker","description":"\u003cb\u003eBellamy's debut novel revives the central female character from Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and imagines her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHypocrisy's not the problem, I think, it's allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into--how does one know when to stop? KK says that Dodie has the advantage because she's physical and I'm \"only psychic.\" ... The truth is: everyone is adopted. My true mother wore a turtleneck and a long braid down her back, drove a Karmann Ghia, drank Chianti in dark corners, fucked Gregroy Corso ...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Dodie Bellamy, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Mina Harker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy's debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Mina Harker\u003c\/i\u003e sought to resuscitate the central female character from Bram Stoker's \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980s--a woman not unlike Dodie Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four different men in a series of letters. Vampirizing Mina Harker, Bellamy turns the novel into a laboratory: a series of attempted transmutations between the two women in which the real story occurs in the gaps and the slippages. Lampooning the intellectual theory-speak of that era, Bellamy's narrator fights to inhabit her own sexuality despite feelings of vulnerability and destruction. Stylish but ruthlessly unpretentious, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Mina Harker\u003c\/i\u003e was Bellamy's first major claim to the literary space she would come to inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDodie Bellamy's writing focuses on sexuality, politics and narrative experimentation, challenging the distinctions between fiction, the essay and poetry. In 2018-2019 she was the subject of \u003ci\u003eOn Our Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, a yearlong series of public events, commissioned essays and reading-group meetings organized by CCA Wattis ICA. Her 2015 essay collection \u003ci\u003eWhen the Sick Rule the World\u003c\/i\u003e will be followed in 2021 by \u003ci\u003eBee Reaved\u003c\/i\u003e, a new essay collection circling around grief, loss and abandonment. With Kevin Killian, she co-edited \u003ci\u003eWriters Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997\u003c\/i\u003e. A compendium of essays on Bellamy's work, \u003ci\u003eDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2020 by Wattis ICA\/Semiotext(e).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929517166866,"sku":"9781635901597","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_57fdf1a1-67fc-459b-99cd-45f0b5ae7934.jpg?v=1739044266","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-letters-of-mina-harker-9781635901597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}