{"product_id":"cancelled-confessions-or-disavowals","title":"Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Cahun was a pioneer of gender-bending role-playing… eerily ahead of her time, she has attracted an almost cult-like following. I am a huge fan.”  —David Bowie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as \u003cem\u003eAveux non Avenus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)\u003c\/em\u003e is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the “memoir”—the singularity of identity—into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of “self” and its many masks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eUsing a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion, and vanity (among others), \u003cem\u003eCancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful, and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist’s book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth—originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the U.S. by MIT Press in 2008—includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan’s original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100-years-old, it is not only prescient, but urgent, in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003econdition\u003c\/span\u003e: like new\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e50% of profit from all used books will go toward purchasing food, clothes, hygiene kits, and other essentials for our unhoused neighbors in Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claude Cahun, translated by Susan de Muth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50546021892289,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/5464\/2881\/files\/IMG_0481.jpg?v=1788134714","url":"https:\/\/www.straybooks.co\/products\/cancelled-confessions-or-disavowals","provider":"Stray Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}