HYENAZ

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In myth, Medusa is raped by the god of the sea, after which she transforms into a winged figure with serpent hair, whose gaze turns anyone to stone. Medusa’s violent, kaleidoscopically structured memoirs in Sivan Ben Yishai’s work are a dedication to all lovers, cataloging moments of our collective memory: between desire and violence, between porn and sexual fantasies, between political attacks and familial complicity in looking away. In a seemingly contrasting scenario, five young girls collectively imagine the dream man of their future, involuntarily casting themselves as perfect attributes by his side. On a third narrative thread, the author drafts a literal reversal dynamic of traditional storytelling patterns:

A woman picks up a knife, leaves the crime scene of the marital bed, hijacks a crowded bus, and shifts into reverse gear to collect century-old storylines and all the battered human love-flesh, decomposing them. Could it not become humus for an eco-sphere of feminist narratives?

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