{"product_id":"heroines-new-edition-isbn-9781635902082","title":"Heroines, new edition","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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over literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the last day of December 2009, Kate Zambreno, then an unpublished writer, began a blog called \"Frances Farmer Is My Sister,\" arising from her obsession with literary modernism and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio,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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"It's kind of a book of utterances ... it's beautiful and I love it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kristen Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book is startlingly insightful.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jezebel.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Issues a powerful clarion call for a supportive community of female writers who will fixate on their own experiences without shame and reject the 'measuring rod' of the 'Great American (Male) Novelist.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was reading your book intensely for days and people started asking, 'Ok ok, what is this book?' What is this book you are so enraptured by? And I said, 'Well, it's a book I've been waiting for a long time.' I am very excited it exists.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mary Borkowski, \u003ci\u003eThe New Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With equal parts unabashed pathos and exceptional intelligence, \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds female subjectivity to produce an impressive and original work that examines the suppression of various female modernists in relation to Zambreno's own complicated position as a writer and a wife.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Higgs, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A lush, lyrical feminist memoir.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Laurie Penny, \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I'm hard-pressed to think of a book I've read this year that obsessed me more in the moment, rippled out as much into my daily life and conversations, or left more powerful aftershocks.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gina Frangello, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e reads with an almost physical urgency, as though written in a hot, hot heat.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Martha Bayne, \u003ci\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e is part literary criticism, part literary history, part memoir, part feminist polemic.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Subashini Navaratnam, \u003ci\u003ePopmatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book sizzles with combative, confessional wit as she deconstructs the toxic strategies that Anglo-US culture uses to dismiss or erase 'the girl writing'. Brilliant and groundbreaking.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The writing in \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e is sharp, visceral, self-avowedly furious, often brilliant…”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jerome Boyd Maunsell, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zambreno doesn't write with the measured voice of someone who can count on being listened to, but with the wail of someone confined to a shed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sheila Heti, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e is rigorous and confident, fiercely intelligent in its demand for a fairer way of reading, writing and writing about women—past, present and future.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Juliet Jacques, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“If you thought you knew a lot about the 'wives' of modernism and the various forms of silencing they suffered, Kate Zambreno's \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e will teach you more; if you didn't know much, your mouth will fall open in enraged amazement.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Maggie Nelson\u003c\/b\u003eKate Zambreno is the author of many books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Light Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTone\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaboration with Sofia Samatar. At Semiotext(e) Zambreno published \u003ci\u003eHeroines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBook of Mutter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAppendix Project\u003c\/i\u003e. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in 2025 and 2026 are two novels—\u003ci\u003eFoam\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePerformance Art\u003c\/i\u003e. They are a 2021 Guggenheim Nonfiction Fellow. Currently Zambreno teaches graduate writing at Columbia University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at NYU.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300992340197,"sku":"NP9781635902082","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635902082.jpg?v=1767728992","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/heroines-new-edition-isbn-9781635902082","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}