{"product_id":"heroines","title":"Heroines","description":"\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Frances Farmer Is My Sister\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrances Farmer Is My Sister \u003c\/em\u003ehelped create a community where today’s “toxic girls” could devise a new feminist discourse, writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeroines\u003c\/em\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—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Published: USA, 2012\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Publisher: Semiotext(e)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 312\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguages: English \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 13:  9781584351146\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ISBN 10:  1584351144\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kate Zambreno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43684046438666,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781584351146.jpg?v=1660910634","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/heroines","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}