Women's Liberation Book Club- Heroines by Kate Zambreno

Name: Women's Liberation Book Club- Heroines by Kate Zambreno
Start: 2024-07-12T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Orca Books Co-op

Schedule

Fri Jul 12 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Orca Books Co-op | Olympia, WA

Women's Liberation Book Club will be meeting Friday, July 12th at 6:00 p.m. to discuss Kate Zambreno's Heroines.
About the book:
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--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 Heroines, 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.