Title: On Hell
Author: Johanna Hedva
Publisher: Arcadia Missa Publications
Published: 2018
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
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The book transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, hacking itself away from contemporary society. Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory, takes the ferocious compulsion to escape (from capitalism, from the limits of the body-machine, from Earth) and channels it into an evisceration of oppression and authority. Equal parts tender and brutal, romantic and furious, On Hell is a novel about myths that trick and resist totalitarianism.
(Text from Arcadia Missa.)
