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Chargement... Heroines (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents) (édition 2012)par Kate Zambreno (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHeroines par Kate Zambreno
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Review published in 3:AM Magazine, "Breakdown, not Breakthrough": http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/breakdown-not-breakthrough/ ( ) Pushed past the first few pages where the author decries Akron, OH as a wasteland and regales the reader with "strange sights" like a woman eating a hot dog in a Radio Shack (what's wrong with eating a hot dog in a Radio Shack?) only to find the book over-serious and problematic. This is autobiography by example; less than an attempt to redeem her sisters from the shadows as much as it is to share the spotlight, to align herself with the maligned and marginalized women of literary history. But definitely no love here for the woman in the Radio Shack, the hardbodies in her yoga class, her friend who subscribes to Martha Stewart magazine, or the "girl-student with her Marilyn Monroe purse." A big part of my own coming-of-age has been to reconcile the differences between me (hairy, bookish, etc.) and other women (nice shoes, new purse, etc.) and realize it's no big fucking deal and learn to love everybody! There's so little love here, no tenderness even for her "sisters", her "my women writers, my compatriots", that the perfunctory bit at the end about writing without self-censorship seems exactly that, perfunctory, insincere. "A new ritual I practice, as I get ready to write, I put on my new 4-inch platforms and stand in front of my floorlength mirror, sometimes as I'm eating chocolate almond-milk ice cream, and I intone to the mirror to myself: You're a fucking genius. Now you try it." Ok! You're a fucking genius! I feel better already. Full review here It's rare I'll dish out a five-star rating, but this stunning memoir/biography of the silenced (abused, institutionalized, marginalized) modernist literary wives was such an eye-opener, and so honestly written, I can't give it fewer. Zambreno's raw delivery begins boldly and builds and builds. Thorough historical research and anecdotal asides about the experiences of Zelda Fitzgerald, Vivienne Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf (and many more) substantiate Zambreno's angry style as their stories unfold. The lack of a falsely imposed structure (chronological, say, or "one wife at a time")strengthens the conversational effect of the whole work. Certain lines repeat beautifully -- "Ring Lardner's quip: Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty" -- for instance. Every page delivers an intense experience, and encouragement to writers to brave writing their own intensity of experience. By the end, Zambreno herself seems to have become an intelligent, impassioned and inspirational friend. Big impact. I'm thrilled it found its way to publication -- exactly as it reads. Big respect for Semiotext(e) and for this remarkable writer. I can't wait to check out her fiction. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism. I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order--pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature." -- from Heroines On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister, arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist "wives and mistresses." In her blog entries, Zambreno reclaimed the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community where today's "toxic girls" could devise a new feminist discourse, writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon. In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it--from T. S. Eliot's New Criticism to the writings of such mid-century intellectuals as Elizabeth Hardwick and Mary McCarthy to the occasional "girl-on-girl crime" of the Second Wave of feminism--she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles female experience to the realm of the "minor," and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. "ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological," writes Zambreno. "When he does, it's existential." By advancing the Girl-As-Philosopher, Zambreno reinvents feminism for her generation while providing a model for a newly subjectivized criticism. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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