Heroines

by Kate Zambreno

Book Overview

A manifesto for "toxic girls" that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism.

I 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."
--from Heroines

On the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584351144
• ISBN13: 9781584351146
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher