![]() ![]() ![]() After she gives birth to her daughter, the Head tells the woman that “I may have been birthed a different way from that child, but I, too, am your creation, Mother.” The concept of monstrous motherhood carries over in “Embodiment” as a young woman finds herself spontaneously pregnant after taking birth control too long in an absurd twist of fate. ![]() What stood out was the woman’s ability to create life, both human and monstrous. Perhaps, the grotesqueness of the situation was a strategic distraction for Chung to focus on the taboo of a woman’s excrement as the absurdity of the situation draws the reader into the narrative while leaving space for interpretation. The meaning behind this story is illusive, which leave room for reader interpretation. “The Head,” follows a woman who is haunted by a physical embodiment of her waste, which takes the form of a monstrous head living in her toilet and calls her mother. The first two stories in the collection dive directly into surrealism in a way that felt creatively absurd and grotesque as it explores body horror in the context of women’s bodily autonomy. ![]()
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