Nervosities

In this debut collection of experimental short fiction John Madera explores the complexities of identity memory history and language revealing the heterogeneities and instabilities that distinguish the post-industrial world. Born of diaspora and transversalism the fourteen stories in NEVOSITIES exhibit narrative modes and voices that converge on our ever-evolving culture of violence mediatization and fragmentation. Ultimately these fictions enact a realization of what Deleuze and Guattari (via Antonin Artaud) call “the cancerous body of America the body of war and money.” Reading NERVOSITIES is at once a journey to an alternate universe and an uncanny chronicle of all-too-familiar terrain.