Monsters By: Alison Croggon [Audiobook]

Author: Alison Croggon
Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher

“This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination…grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible….”

“I was born as part of a monstrous structure-the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love. I am the daughter of an empire that declared itself the natural order of the world.”

From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how the structures we are raised within splinter and distort the possibilities of our lives and the lives of others. Monsters asks how we maintain the fictions that we create about ourselves, what we will sacrifice to maintain these fictions – and what we have to gain by confronting them.

15M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 001 - The Curse.mp3
20M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 002 - Ancestors.mp3
6.0M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 003 - The Fracture.mp3
12M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 004 - Visions.mp3
15M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 005 - Reading into a Self.mp3
15M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 006 - Crisis.mp3
1.3M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 007 - Mortality.mp3
3.6M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 008 - The Pattern.mp3
10M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 009 - Scandal.mp3
16M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 010 - Territories.mp3
11M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 011 - The Whiteness.mp3
13M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 012 - Refusals.mp3
8.1M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 013 - Rage.mp3
8.6M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 014 - Prisms.mp3
3.8M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 015 - Fault.mp3
17M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 016 - Unravelling.mp3
9.0M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 017 - Money.mp3
17M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 018 - Inventing Man and Woman.mp3
19M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 019 - Sisters.mp3
7.0M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 020 - The Labyrinth.mp3
15M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 021 - Clinging to the Cooler Edge.mp3
7.5M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 022 - Long-Since Groundless Ladders.mp3
2.0M	Monsters - Alison Croggon - 023 - A Beginning, Maybe.mp3
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