{"product_id":"daughter-isotope-9781946031907","title":"Daughter Isotope","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Vidhu Aggarwal\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Operating System\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Operating System\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaughter Isotope is a book of \"hybrid\" poems that speaks to multiple iterations of \"daughter\" tropes across generations, national borders, and timescales. Central to the question of the Daughter Isotope is: What is a collective archive? within a global, disparate, migrant cultural space. DI is organized in a series of four \"clouds,\" calling up the vague, penetrable borders of our digital lives, both searching and searchable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the manuscript, the poems operate as types of search engines that test the boundaries of often overlapping archives or \"clouds\" that make up diasporic experience. Starting with a series of poems based on the Mahabharata, an \"encyclopedic\" Sanskrit epic-cloud about an apocalyptic war composed over centuries, the organization of the manuscript is based off of South Asian polyvocal storytelling traditions. Like Donna Haraway's cyborg, a \"daughter\" gender could be seen as any \"child\" or subject under a rigid paternal order - whether Hindu nationalism or U.S. exceptionalism - whose filiation is in question. Dispersed through the manuscript are multiple versions\/clouds of Draupadi, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Krishna, Michael Jackson, and the aspirational figure of @agirl, among others uncertain \"daughters.\" Poems interrogate the stability of various \"daughter\" genders through myth, online personas, computer gaming, nuclear physics, and artificial intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Operating System","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45147130855575,"sku":"9781946031907","price":1301.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781946031907.webp?v=1767911657","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/daughter-isotope-9781946031907","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}