Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art. Reading Rita Indiana's dystopian novella Tentacle I was immediately reminded of the world building, structure and large in scope ideas of the post-cyberpunk of Paolo Baciagalupi and Ian MacDonald and as such craved the depth of exploration of character and scenario that their massive works allow for; but her style grips you and her ideas excite, her multi-layered structure compels you to dive in to the world . Rita Indiana’s Tentacle has the settings, themes, and expansiveness of a much larger book, but it blends that ambition with a host of irreverence (along with some nods to the music of Giorgio Moroder, which is never a bad thing). It’s a time-travel story, a meditation on gender and sexuality, and an art-world satire―as well as, arguably, a satire of ‘chosen one’ narrative tropes.
Rita Indiana is a Dominican music composer, producer and key figure in contemporary Caribbean literature; Tentacle won the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers in , the first Spanish-language book to do so. 'Rita Indiana is unclassifiable. TENTACLE is a kind of pulp fiction for the educated classes, a wild but carefully conceived combination of sci-fi adventure, art-world-cum-hipster-satire, eco- and socially-aware thriller, with a work of Caribbean studies breaking in from the side. It works. The tone is cool and nonchalant. Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé (Omicunlé's Maid), the first Spanish-language book to win the grand prize at the Caribbean Writer's Association Awards (in ), is one such work. The novel, which was published in English translation as Tentacle in , is at once a work of dystopic science fiction (set in a future Dominican.
Rita Indiana’s Tentacle has the settings, themes, and expansiveness of a much larger book, but it blends that ambition with a host of irreverence (along with some nods to the music of Giorgio Moroder, which is never a bad thing). It’s a time-travel story, a meditation on gender and sexuality, and an art-world satire―as well as, arguably, a satire of ‘chosen one’ narrative tropes. ‘Rita Indiana is unclassifiable. Tentacle is a kind of pulp fiction for educated classes, a wild but carefully conceived combination of sci-fi adventure, art-world-cum-hipster-satire, eco- and socially-aware thriller, with a work of Caribbean studies breaking in from the side. It works. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art.
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