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Zusatztext The book is startlingly insightful. Listed in "Books You Should Read" — Jezebel.com — 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.' — Publishers Weekly — 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 for a long time.' I am very excited it exists. — Mary Borkowski , The New Inquiry — It should come as no surprise that her provocative new work, Heroines , published by Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents imprint next month, challenges easy categorization, this time by poetically swerving in and out of memoir, diary, fiction, literary history, criticism, and theory. With equal parts unabashed pathos and exceptional intelligence, Heroines 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. — Christopher Higgs , The Paris Review Online — Intensity and intelligence forge the baseline current that runs through and characterizes most of Kate Zambreno's written work. Heroines was named one of the 'Most Anticipated' Books of 2012. — The Millions — For anyone interested in the present and future of literature, Heroines is required reading, and rereading. — Liz Baudler , Examiner.com — Named one of the best books of 2012 by Laurie Penny in The New Statesman ('a lush, lyrical feminist memoir'), by Michele Filgate and Karolina Waclawiak at Salon , by Elissa Schappell at the Tin House blog, by Tobias Carroll at Vol. 1 Brooklyn , by Laura Pearson at Time Out Chicago , at The Nervous Breakdown , the ICA London blog , at Drawn&Quarterly bookstore, and by Verso Books. —— In her third book, Heroines , a genre-defying battle cry about forgotten and suppressed women in literature (as well as her role in the gendered story of her own life), Zambreno's mirror is more relentless and reflective than ever. A scholarly treatise for readers who never cared about scholarship, and a memoir for those who have had enough with the insularity of simple confession, Heroines synthesizes the raw passion of a diary with the relevance and scope of nothing less than the history of literature. As 2012 nears a close, 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. — Gina Frangello , The Rumpus — Heroines reads with an almost physical urgency, as though written in a hot, hot heat, as Zambreno tangles and untangles historic and fictional literary ladies (Emma Bovary, Nicole Diver), all while chronicling her own creative frustration as she trails her husband from one backwater academic post to the next, trying to dig herself out of her own alienated funk. It's totally smart, provocative, and oddly sexy. — Martha Bayne , Chicago Reader — Heroines is part literary criticism, part literary history, part memoir, part feminist polemic. In its form and in its writing, Heroines is what the author is trying to rescue and reclaim: to use Zambreno's favourite words, it's messy, girly, and excessive. It's also sharp, finely-structured, and meticulously (voraciously) researched. — Subashini Navaratnam , Popmatters — Zambreno stages an impassioned encounter between the medicalised lives of Jane Bowles, Vivienne Eliot, Zelda Fitzgerald and other Modernist wives and mistresses and her own struggles as a young woman and a ...
