Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead

Author(s): Hayley Singer

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Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats into infinity. Has a nasty sting of corpses. What was it Dante wrote?;;Abandon Every Hope is a lament, an elegy, a deranged encyclopedia, and a diary of anxiety. How can anyone document the vastness of violence against animals in a bloated industrial age?;;Across a series of essays, Hayley Singer investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse to map the contours of a world cut to pieces by organised and profitable death. A compelling debut in poetic prose, Singer asks how we may write the life of the dead; the smell of an egg factory; of multispecies PTSD; of planetary harm and self-harm- of the horror we make on earth. Where does the slaughterhouse begin and how can it end?;

General Information

  • : 9780645536997
  • : Upswell Publishing
  • : Upswell Publishing
  • : 0.202
  • : November 2022
  • : 1.3 Centimeters X 15.1 Centimeters X 21 Centimeters
  • : books

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  • : Hayley Singer
  • : Paperback
  • : 170

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Longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize