{"title":"Jackie Wang","description":"Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void (2021), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; the critical essay collection Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018); and the chapbooks The Twitter Hive Mind Is Dreaming (2018) and Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (2016). Her research is on racial capitalism, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police.","products":[{"product_id":"alien-daughters-walk-into-the-sun-an-almanac-of-extreme-girlhood-paperback","title":"Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, \u003ci\u003eAlien Daughters Walk into the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e traces Jackie Wang's trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book \u003ci\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAlien Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an \"odd girl\" from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, \u003ci\u003eAlien Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang's singular self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot's Fool, with a leap of faith.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104798281951,"sku":"9781635901924","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HpnZOBddFf9781635901924.webp?v=1781111341"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jackie-wang.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}