Atomik Aztex by Foster, Sesshu [Paperback]

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Publisher
City Lights
ISBN-10
0872864405
ISBN-13
9780872864405
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45013315

Product Key Features

Book Title
Atomik Aztex
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Fantasy / General, Literary, Alternative History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Sesshu Foster
Format
Perfect

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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-000899
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Atomik Aztex combines Latin American magical realism with science-fiction for a story set in an alternate future. The Aztec empire has triumphed, running the world with ruthless, and psychotropically enhanced, efficiency., Finally, but not an also-ran, is Sesshu Foster's Atomik Aztex, which takes us into a parallel universe where the Aztecs beat Cortez and now more or less rule the world, draining Europe of captives for their sacrificial rituals. In Foster's Aztec metaphysics, both universes play out at once, with our hero doubling as an Aztec warrior/priest and a grossly exploited Latino worker in a filthy, modern-day L.A. slaughterhouse. Blood flows everywhere here, human and animal, but so do the laughs. Foster is profoundly disorienting . . . but that's what we need from novels. You should put them down, rub your eyes, and see that the world isn't so flat after all. , Punk sci-fi and kitchen-sink realism create a startling, morally fraught vision in Foster's genre-straddling tour de force. . . . readers will be blown away by Foster's control over the material . . . brilliantly inventive . . . , This is one mad neighborhood carnival roller coaster ride through Aztln, the underground, the QT--a smoky universe hall of mirrors cosmik barrio existential comic strip. Oddball, hilarious--deep. Sesshu Foster delivers., "Just as Joan Didion once traced the deep fissures in Southern California's sun-kissed façade, poet-turned-novelist Sesshu Foster brings to life places one can't visit from the inside of a car.. . . a jocular novel where violence liberates and enslaves at the same time, History (with a capital "H") is rendered as organ grinder, quite literally - monkey included.", If the Aztecs had defeated the conquistadores and had eventually become the mainstream, what would our world be like? Where is Teknotitln located? In Robo-Los Angeles, Mexico D.F., or in the imagination of Sesshu Foster? If Ancient America had triumphed over savage capitalism, chicanismo would be the (poetical, political, and spiritual) center of it all. Atomik Aztex is a graphic, hilarious and violent chronicle of multiple realities that could emerge out of this proposition. It's an amazing exercise of radical imagination., Atomik Aztex defies genre-labeling, yet it may be pigeonholed as science fiction. That would be unfortunate, as it could limit its audience and belie its serious intent. Foster's subversion of history is not a simple exercise in what-ifs, nor is it politically correct revisionism. It raises a fresh, if demanding, voice above the recent trend for books composed using understated, psychological, navel-gazing, whispering prose., Burroughs meets Gmez-Pea . . . nah, Roque Dalton meets Kurt Vonnegut . . . or how about Cesaire meets Nezahualcoyotl? Dare we say original? Yes! Hilarious, poignant, and at times devastating, Foster has crafted a fine post-global poetic, a cocktail of sublime anarchy to toss into the machine., Foster's satire on war and commercialism depicts a modern world ruled by the Aztecs, who rose to dominance after defeating the invading Spaniards in the 1500s. . . . A fine example of alternative fiction with a strong social theme; recommended for most collections., ". . .Foster's first novel. . . leaps fearlessly back and forth from 1940s Stalingrad, where an elite cadre of Aztec warriors is helping the Russians fend off invading Nazis, to "the frenetic hustle of overcrowded Teknotitlan," capital of the "Aztek Socialist Imperium," to the industrial back alleys of "some 3rd-class city called Los Angeles, someplace to the north.", In Sesshu Foster's explosive new novel Atomik Aztex, we get two narratives for the price of one. In the first (or maybe it's the second, part of the delight of Foster's book is that it's impossible to tell), the Aztecs not only beat back the Spanish conquistadors, but then went so far as to colonize Europe itself.... The other narrative finds... Zenzontli a lowly illegal immigrant slicing up pigs for a living at a Farmer John slaughterhouse in East L.A., Foster has fashioned a wild, thrilling and occasionally revolting ride through a pre- and post-modern world where bloody violence seems the only connective tissue in history and chronology has been collapsed to allow for centuries of events to all happen concurrently. Atomik Aztex is hip, bloody, occasionally baffling and often piercingly brilliant., "In his rambunctious debut novel, Atomik Aztex, poet Sesshu Foster swaps a few consonants to designate the city "Teknotitlan," rendering the name far more piquant to a contemporary English-speaker's ear. . . . Renaming the Aztec capital is just one creative flourish in a book so heedlessly imaginative that it often seems ready to burst its pages like a comic-book POW. . . . this is an ambitious, energetic, and fiercely intelligent novel.", Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519; two years later, history tells us, the Aztec civilization fell to the Spanish invaders and was wiped out. Atomik Aztex, the hallucinatory first novel by poet Sesshu Foster, proposes a different reality., Anyone who reads Atomic Aztex is doomed. Those who don't have lost their opportunity to go out with a salubrious whimper, never to know why they were condemned. The prose is an electrifying, eclectic phantasmagoria of Groucho's marxism, dadada, surreal and natural (ism and ain'tm) combined with double-edged intellectual/historical hysteria., "... a graphic, hilarious and violent chronicle of multiple realities that could emerge ... an amazing exercise of radical imagination."--Guillermo Gómez-Peña "... this is an ambitious, energetic, and fiercely intelligent novel."--Bookforum "A fine example of alternative fiction with a strong social theme; recommended for most collections."--Library Journal, January 2006 "Atomik Aztex is hip, bloody, occasionally baffling and often piercingly brilliant." --Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 15, 2005 "Hilarious, poignant, and at times devastating, Foster has crafted a fine ... cocktail of sublime anarchy to toss into the machine."--Rubén Martínez, author of The New Americans: Seven Families Journey to Another Country "The prose is an electrifying, eclectic phantasmagoria of Groucho's marxism, dadada, surreal and naturalcombined with double-edged intellectual/historical hysteria."--Rick Harsh, author of the Driftless Trilogy "This is one mad neighborhood carnival roller coaster ride through Aztlán, the underground, the QT ... Oddball, hilarious--deep."--Marisela Norte, author of East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights "A book so heedlessly imaginative it often seems ready to burst its pages like a comic-book POW."--Emily Barton, Bookforum, December 2005 "... puts his finger on a particular nexus of World War II-era racism, factory life and the landscape of Los Angeles"--The Los Angeles Times, January 2006 Atomik Aztex was chosen the Winner of The Believer Magazine Book Award 2005!!--The Believer Magazine, March 2006, "With Atomic Aztex, Foster slices through history. His Aztex are not so very different from the Spanish colonialists or the corporate greed-mongers or the Farmer John pig butchers. "Everybody knows," he acknowledges from the outset, "that atavism and savagery make the world go round." For Foster, as a writer, the best strategy for fighting back is to rip up the language . . . He is not the first writer to use odd spellings to arrest our normal reading patterns. And he is not the first artist to explore the fantasy life of someone working on a factory line. But Foster puts his finger here on a particular nexus of World War II-era racism, factory life and the landscape of Los Angeles and then claims it for his very own.", "... a graphic, hilarious and violent chronicle of multiple realities that could emerge ... an amazing exercise of radical imagination."--Guillermo Gómez-Peña "... this is an ambitious, energetic, and fiercely intelligent novel."--Bookforum "A fine example of alternative fiction with a strong social theme; recommended for most collections."--Library Journal, January 2006 "Atomik Aztex is hip, bloody, occasionally baffling and often piercingly brilliant."--Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 15, 2005 "Hilarious, poignant, and at times devastating, Foster has crafted a fine ... cocktail of sublime anarchy to toss into the machine."--Rubén Martínez, author of The New Americans: Seven Families Journey to Another Country "The prose is an electrifying, eclectic phantasmagoria of Groucho's marxism, dadada, surreal and naturalcombined with double-edged intellectual/historical hysteria."--Rick Harsh, author of the Driftless Trilogy "This is one mad neighborhood carnival roller coaster ride through Aztlán, the underground, the QT ... Oddball, hilarious--deep."--Marisela Norte, author of East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights "A book so heedlessly imaginative it often seems ready to burst its pages like a comic-book POW."--Emily Barton, Bookforum, December 2005 "... puts his finger on a particular nexus of World War II-era racism, factory life and the landscape of Los Angeles"--The Los Angeles Times, January 2006 Atomik Aztex was chosen the Winner of The Believer Magazine Book Award 2005!!--The Believer Magazine, March 2006, Sesshu Foster's oracular Atomik Aztex is a novel of alternate history that posits the existence of an America where the Spanish conquistadors didn't conquer Mexico, thus turning the Aztecs into a major world power. . . . an unfailing, visceral, even courageous reminder that the Other is impossibly close. , This is one mad neighborhood carnival roller coaster ride through Aztln, the underground, the QT—a smoky universe hall of mirrors cosmik barrio existential comic strip. Oddball, hilarious—deep. Sesshu Foster delivers.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
A fantastical gonzo Aztlan mythology, where modern Aztecs and immigrant ghosts uncover blood sacrifice in Los Angeles., In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism reigns supreme. Aztecs armed with automatic weapons, totemic powers and blood sacrifice conquer and colonize 1940s Europe, as ghosts of the world wars emerge to haunt contemporary Los Angeles. Atomik Aztex is a hilarious read. A potent concoction, with influences from graphic novels, along with Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo , the paranoia of Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs, and an outrageous cyber-Aztl n mix reminiscent of Guillermo G mez-Pe a. Sesshu Foster is the author of the critically acclaimed City Terrace Field Manual ., In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a parallel world run by the Europeans, where consumerism reigns supreme. Aztecs armed with automatic weapons, totemic powers and blood sacrifice conquer and colonize 1940s Europe, as ghosts of the world wars emerge to haunt contemporary Los Angeles. Atomik Aztex is a hilarious read. A potent concoction, with influences from graphic novels, along with Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo , the paranoia of Philip K. Dick and William Burroughs, and an outrageous cyber-Aztlán mix reminiscent of Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Sesshu Foster is the author of the critically acclaimed City Terrace Field Manual .
LC Classification Number
PS3556.O7719A95 2005

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