Sanitee T'Chong

Samantha Guimoi & The Trinity of Terror Sanitee T'Chong

This is a narrative of power, and a question of power. It is a tale about a monster... But who is the monster ?17 year old Samantha, an Asian student, ensnares the men in her life to further her own selfish ends. Mark, her professor, is but one of a litany of men-and not the last-with whom Sam flirts and seduces to achieve her goals. Coached by her mother, she devours, like a black widow spider, lover after lover after lover in the 3 short years since losing her virginity at age 14. Mark's relationship with Samantha at the University of No Ideas exposes the dark secrets of the ivory-tower. His relationship with Sam is as much about sex as it is about feminism, student-teacher relationships, power, and the laws and moral discourses that govern the Academy. How was it that Samantha and her other ill-begotten boyfriend could subvert human dignity and wreak havoc via cyber terrorism to generate moral terror ? Samantha had the power of erotic capital, but the moral and administrative powers of feminine discourses were blind to its capacity. In their myopic view of the world that self-acclaimed feminists had fabricated, they inverted power relationships, claiming all young, nubile student girleens, were victims, Asian victims, of tacit male power. Not since Lolita have we seen such a stark challenge to the acclaimed innocence of girleens. This is a narrative that every girleen, every feminist and non-feminist alike, and every academic needs to read. You decide who is the monster, the guimoi, in this intricate, bastardized exercise of raw power...