The Contest of the Fruits by Slavs and Tatars
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Publisher: The MIT Press / Haverford College, Cambridge, MA, 2021
Editor: Guangtian Ha and Slavs and Tatars
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 978-0-262-54251-7
The Contest of the Fruits takes a nineteenth-century Uyghur satirical poem and detonates it into a polyglot, proto-Turkic rap battle between thirteen fruits. Edited by Guangtian Ha and Slavs and Tatars, the book expands the artists’ first animated film into a dense field of language, politics, religion, humor, resilience and resistance, with essays moving through Uyghur script changes, rap in China, satire and silence. A sharp, seductive object where fruit becomes alphabet, border, joke and weapon.
