short story "Water, All Its Weight"
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"Water, All Its Weight" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of emotional burden and transformation through surreal, water-infused imagery.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| short story "Water, All Its Weight" canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Roxane Gay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
psychological effects of trauma
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tension between interior and exterior realities ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Difficult Women ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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short fiction ⓘ |
| hasCentralCharacter | unnamed woman protagonist ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Difficult Women ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| motif |
flooding
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water ⓘ weight ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
magical realism
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surrealism ⓘ |
| partOf | Roxane Gay bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookAppearance | Grove Press ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary United States ⓘ |
| settingFeature | house gradually filling with water ⓘ |
| theme |
emotional burden
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female experience ⓘ grief ⓘ isolation ⓘ marital strain ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| workByAuthor | Roxane Gay ⓘ |
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