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Sep 17, 2018 · Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. —Rosario Castellanos, excerpt from an early untitled poem. Images of literal and emotional solitude haunt the work of Rosario Castellanos, the visionary Mexican feminist, poet, novelist, and essayist. It’s a state she both cherished and ...
- Dorothy West
Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of...
- Feminize Your Canon
Our new monthly column, Feminize Your Canon, explores the...
- Feminize Your Canon: Ingeborg Bachmann
With her gamine crop, turtleneck, and moody off-camera gaze,...
- Dorothy West
Our column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Originally begun by Emma Garman, it will now be written by Joanna Scutts. Mary Heaton Vorse. Mary Heaton Vorse, prolific novelist, journalist, and labor activist, spent most of her long life trying to escape her upper-middle-class origins.
Jul 9, 2019 · With her gamine crop, turtleneck, and moody off-camera gaze, Bachmann resembles Françoise Sagan, the teenage French novelist who was causing a sensation with Bonjour Tristesse. Bachmann was, the Austrian writer Franzobel has suggested, a forerunner of the chick-lit phenomenon, “the first pop icon of Austrian literature.”.
Sep 17, 2018 · Emma Garman introduces readers of the Paris Review to the Mexican poet and writer Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) as part of the monthly column, "Feminize Your Canon." "Images of literal and emotional solitude haunt the work of Rosario Castellanos, the visionary Mexican feminist, poet, novelist, and essayist," writes Garman.
Jun 13, 2018 · The first in a new series at the Paris Review, featuring “underrated and underread” female authors. This one profiles British Novelist Olivia Manning (1908-1980), known best for her novel School for Love and for her Balkan and Levant trilogies. Manning’s books featured less likable women characters, who might have been better appreciated if they were […]
Jul 9, 2019 · For the newest installment of the Paris Review's "Feminize Your Canon" series, Emma Garman focuses her lens on Ingeborg Bachmann, whose 1971 novel, Malina, has just been reissued in an updated translation by New Directions. Garman remarks on Bachmann's radical departure from poetry in the early 1950s: "The narcotizing beauty of formal poetry, she had discovered, muffled her political intent."
Oct 24, 2019 · Feminize Your Canon: Iris Origo. Iris Origo (courtesy La Foce) Iris Origo might be the most self-effacing writer ever to gain renown as a diarist. Her reputation rests on her unique perceptions of ...
