{"product_id":"heroines-new-edition-paperback","title":"Heroines, New Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Zambreno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJamie Hood\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI 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over literature.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called \"Frances Farmer Is My Sister,\" arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her partner held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants and melancholy portraits of the fates of the modernist \"wives and mistresses,\" reclaiming 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 of writers and devised a new feminist discourse of writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e, 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--she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles feminine 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.\" With \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e, Zambreno provided a model for a newly subjectivized criticism, prefiguring many group biographies and forms of autotheory and hybrid memoirs that were to come in the years to follow. A book that has become its own canon, \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e was named one of the \"50 Books that define the past 5 Years in Literature\" by \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e, an \"Essential Feminist Manifesto\" by \u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e, and one of the \"50 Greatest Books by Women\" in \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Zambreno is the author of nine books, most recently \u003ci\u003eTo Write As if Already Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of Hervé Guibert, and \u003ci\u003eThe Light Room\u003c\/i\u003e, a meditation on art and care. At Semiotext(e) she published \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAppendix Project\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches graduate nonfiction at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Nonfiction Fellow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJamie Hood is a poet, memoirist, and critic. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695441055807,"sku":"9781635902082","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/76fc33f3786cc6a343a9114c5e963a31.webp?v=1765003826","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/heroines-new-edition-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}