Allan deSouza: Ark of Martyrs

ISBN 978-0-9985006-8-3April 2020, English, 5 x 8 in, 100 pages, b&w, softcoverDesign: Sming Sming BooksCo-published with Wolfman Books! Ark of Martyrs is a rewriting of Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel, Heart of Darkness. In the vocal traditions of gospel, toasting, and rap, Allan deSouza replaces Conrad’s words with ones that loosely rhyme to form an autobiography of V whose story consists of the mental chatter, unspoken and unspeakable desires, avarice, anxieties, and political resentments of guests at a wedding party on a cruise ship that’s adrift and under quarantine. “A profoundly and provocatively subversive queering of contemporaneity and power. Like gender and its variance, this is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.” —Judith Butter  “I’ve made my decision. This is the sashay standard of Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent. Girl really worked it and really f*cked it up! But Shante, she stay.” —RuPole “A vile, disgusting tome, sure to corrupt innocent minds. Y