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  1. Dictee /
    Author: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    This restored edition reflects Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's original vision and intentions for Dictee, a foundational and unparalleled text of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist... more

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    This restored edition reflects Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's original vision and intentions for Dictee, a foundational and unparalleled text of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. This restored edition, produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), reflects Cha's original vision for the book. Featuring the original cover and high-quality reproductions of the interior layout as Cha intended them, this version of Dictee faithfully renders the book as an art object in its authentic form. A formative text of modern Asian American literature, Dictee is a dynamic autobiography that tells the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. Cha's work manifests in nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Deploying a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry, Cha links these women's stories to explore the trauma of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory it causes. The result is an enduringly powerful, beautiful, unparalleled work.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520390492
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    Parent title: Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    Subjects: Loss (Psychology); Suffering; Women; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General.
    Other subjects: ancient greece.; asian american.; asian history.; asian.; autobiography.; biographical.; coming of age.; demeter.; exile.; female suffering.; greek muses.; growing up.; hard times.; korea.; korean american.; korean exile.; korean.; life story.; mother daughter.; motherhood.; oppression.; persephone.; politics.; real life.; real world.; realistic.; revolutionary.; strong women.; suffering.; true story.; womens issues.; womens stories.
    Scope: 1 online resource (178 p.)
  2. Maternal conceptions in classical literature and philosophy /
    Contributor: Sharrock, Alison, (editor.); Keith, Alison, (editor.)
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto ;

    "Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays... more

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    "Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to unpack carefully the role of the mother--not as projected by the son or other male relations, but from a woman's own experiences--in order to better understand how they perceived themselves and their families. Because the primary interest is in the mothers themselves, rather than the authors of the texts in which they appear, the work is organized according to the lifecycle of motherhood instead of the traditional structure of the chronology of male authors. The chronology of the male authors ranges from classical Greece to late antiquity, while the motherly lifecycle ranges from pre-conception to the commemoration of offspring who have died before their mothers."--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Sharrock, Alison, (editor.); Keith, Alison, (editor.)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-4875-3875-8; 1-4875-3203-2; 1-4875-3202-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Phoenix ; 57 : Studies in gender ; 2
    Subjects: Classical literature; Philosophy, Ancient.; Mothers in literature.
    Other subjects: Aethra.; Hecyra.; Jocasta.; Juno.; Mothers.; Octavia.; Thetis.; Venus.; children.; classics.; family relationships in ancient Greece and Rome.; feminism.; literature.; maternity.; motherhood.; philosophy.
    Scope: 1 online resource (395 pages).
  3. Maternal conceptions in classical literature and philosophy /
    Contributor: Sharrock, Alison, (editor.); Keith, Alison, (editor.)
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto ;

    "Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays... more

     

    "Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient authors are men, this book nevertheless aims to unpack carefully the role of the mother--not as projected by the son or other male relations, but from a woman's own experiences--in order to better understand how they perceived themselves and their families. Because the primary interest is in the mothers themselves, rather than the authors of the texts in which they appear, the work is organized according to the lifecycle of motherhood instead of the traditional structure of the chronology of male authors. The chronology of the male authors ranges from classical Greece to late antiquity, while the motherly lifecycle ranges from pre-conception to the commemoration of offspring who have died before their mothers."--

     
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    Contributor: Sharrock, Alison, (editor.); Keith, Alison, (editor.)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-4875-3875-8; 1-4875-3203-2; 1-4875-3202-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Phoenix ; 57 : Studies in gender ; 2
    Subjects: Classical literature; Philosophy, Ancient.; Mothers in literature.
    Other subjects: Aethra.; Hecyra.; Jocasta.; Juno.; Mothers.; Octavia.; Thetis.; Venus.; children.; classics.; family relationships in ancient Greece and Rome.; feminism.; literature.; maternity.; motherhood.; philosophy.
    Scope: 1 online resource (395 pages).
  4. Dictee /
    Author: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung,
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of... more

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    Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha's mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. The elements that unite these women are suffering and the transcendence of suffering. The book is divided into nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Cha deploys a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry to explore issues of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory. The result is a work of power, complexity, and enduring beauty.

     
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  5. Deportment :
    The Poetry of Alice Burdick /
    Author: Burdick, Alice,
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Wilfrid Laurier University Press,, Waterloo, Ontario :

    Deportment is a selection of poems -- surreal, cerebral, and defiant -- by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women's rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with... more

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    Deportment is a selection of poems -- surreal, cerebral, and defiant -- by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women's rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with mischievous wordplay. The selection includes some of Burdick's most iconic poems as well as rare work from the beginning of her career in 1990s Toronto and previously unpublished material. Burdick's later poetry, more expansive in form and subject matter, addresses motherhood, the rural landscape, and sex and desire at middle age. Deportment makes the case for Alice Burdick as one of Canada's best poets, alongside figures such as Lisa Robertson, Karen Solie, and Sina Queyras. Alessandro Porco's introduction situates Burdick's early work within the Toronto small press scene, focusing on her fugitive chapbooks, broadsides, and literary ephemera while highlighting her formative relationships with Victor Coleman and Stuart Ross. He traces her move from Toronto to Nova Scotia in the early 2000s and the impact of publishing from the social and spatial margins of Canadian literature. In her afterword, Burdick reflects on everyday life -- as a poet and citizen, daughter and mother -- in both the zombieland of downtown Toronto and the alien geography of Eastern Canada. She explores how the comparative speed, sound, and density of urban and rural spaces have shaped her literary imagination.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Porco, Alessandro, (editor,, writer of introduction.)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-77112-382-6; 1-77112-381-8
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    Series: Laurier poetry series
    Subjects: Canadian poetry
    Other subjects: Canadian surrealism.; Stuart Ross.; elegy.; feminist poetics.; motherhood.; nature poetry.; poetics of place.; small and micropress publishing.; the analytic lyric.
    Scope: 1 online resource (95 pages).
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    Includes bibliographical references.
  6. L. M. Montgomery and gender /
    Contributor: Pike, E. Holly, (editor.); Robinson, Laura M., (editor.)
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  McGill-Queen's University Press,, Montreal, Quebec :

    The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current... more

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    The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender in the works of one of Canada's best-loved authors.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Pike, E. Holly, (editor.); Robinson, Laura M., (editor.)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-2280-1017-9; 0-2280-1016-0
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    Subjects: Femininity in literature.; Gender identity in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Sex role in literature.
    Other subjects: Montgomery, L. M. (1874-1942); Anne.; Augustinian Community.; Blue Castle.; Canadian.; Emily.; Green Gables.; Ingleside.; Island.; Jane Urquhart.; Magic for Marigold.; Montgomery.; New Moon.; PEI.; Pauline Johnson.; Prince Edward Island.; Rilla.; Seasons.; Thomson.; White Feather Campaign.; adoption.; adventure story.; childrens literature.; cross dressing.; death.; diary.; disease.; domestic space.; fairy tales.; femininity.; feminist theory.; fiction.; gender.; history.; humour.; intertexts.; journal.; masculinity.; motherhood.; patriarchal space.; queer theory.; robinsonade.; short stories.; time.; women.; writing.
    Scope: 1 online resource (415 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Cover -- L.M. MONTGOMERY AND GENDER -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION "You Don't Want Me Because I'm Not a Boy": L.M. Montgomery and Gender -- MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES -- 1 The White Feather: Gender and War in L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside -- 2 From "Uncanny Beauty" to "Uncanny Disease": Destabilizing Gender through the Deaths of Ruby Gillis and Walter Blythe and the Life of Anne Shirley -- 3 Barney of the Island: Nature and Gender in Montgomery's The Blue Castle -- DOMESTIC SPACE -- 4 The Robinsonade versus the Annescapade: Exploring the "Adventure" in Anne of Green Gables -- 5 Soliciting Home: The Cultural Function of Orphans in Early Twentieth-Century Canada -- 6 "That House Belongs to Me": The Appropriation of Patriarchal Space in L.M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy -- HUMOUR -- 7 Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery's Short Fiction -- 8 "I'm Noted for That": Comic Subversion and Gender in L.M. Montgomery's "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" and "Aunt Philippa and the Men" -- 9 "Nora and I Got Through the Evening": Gender Roles and Romance in the Diary of L.M. Montgomery and Nora Lefurgey -- INTERTEXTS -- 10 The Blue Castle: Sex and the Revisionist Fairy Tale -- 11 L.M. Montgomery, E. Pauline Johnson, and the Figure of the "Half-Breed Girl" -- 12 Orgies of Lovemaking: L.M. Montgomery's Feminine Version of the Augustinian Community -- 13 Feminizing Thomson's The Seasons: Identity, Gender, and Seasonal Aesthetics in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables -- BEING IN TIME -- 14 Her Reader -- 15 Like a Childless Mother: L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother's Loss -- 16 Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
  7. The Last Utopians :
    Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy /
    Author: Robertson, Michael
    Published: [2018]; ©2018
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's... more

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    The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayFor readers reared on the dystopian visions of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale, the idea of a perfect society may sound more sinister than enticing. In this lively literary history of a time before "Orwellian" entered the cultural lexicon, Michael Robertson reintroduces us to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of late nineteenth-century American and British writers.The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper," wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society.These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-4008-8960-X
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    RVK Categories: HL 1091 ; HT 3655 ; HL 3785 ; HL 2389 ; HT 5289
    Series: Princeton scholarship online
    Subjects: Utopias in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General .
    Other subjects: Bellamy, Edward, (1850-1898); Morris, William, (1834-1896); Carpenter, Edward, (1844-1929); Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, (1860-1935); Bellamy, Edward, (1850-1898.); Carpenter, Edward, (1844-1929.); Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, (1860-1935.); Morris, William, (1834-1896.); Charles Fourier.; Charlotte Perkins Gilman.; Edward Bellamy.; Edward Carpenter.; Equality.; Henri de Saint-Simon.; Henry George.; Herland.; John Ruskin.; Looking Backward.; Nationalism.; News from Nowhere.; Progress and Poverty.; Radical Faeries.; Robert Owen.; The Nature of Gothic.; Thomas More.; Towards Democracy.; Uranians.; Urning.; Utopia.; Walt Whitman.; William Morris.; World's Mother.; community.; economic equality.; education.; egalitarianism.; everyday utopias.; homogenic love.; homosexuality.; industrial capitalism.; intermediate sex.; labor.; last utopians.; literary dystopia.; motherhood.; mothers.; progress.; radical equality.; religion.; social thought.; social transformation.; socialism.; sustainability.; technology.; transatlantic utopianism.; universal spirit.; utopia.; utopian literature.; utopianism.; women.
    Scope: 1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) :, illustrations
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    Previously issued in print: 2018.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index.

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  8. Being property once myself :
    blackness and the end of man /
    Author: Bennett, Joshua
    Published: 2020.; ©2020
    Publisher:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, Cambridge, Massachusetts :

    "Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter... more

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    "Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure-the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, and the shark-in the works of black authors such as Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden. The plantation, the wilderness, the kitchenette overrun with pests, the simultaneous valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people-all are sites made unforgettable by literature in which we find black and animal life in fraught proximity. Joshua Bennett argues that animal figures are deployed in these texts to assert a theory of black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. Bennett also turns to the black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of antiblackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a close reading of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-674-24546-6; 0-674-24549-0
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    Subjects: Black people in literature.; American literature; Animals in literature.; Literature and race; Anthropomorphism in literature.
    Other subjects: african american.; afrofuturism.; animal studies.; animals literature.; anthropocene.; bipoc authors.; black experience.; black masculinity.; critical race theory.; du bois.; feminist thought.; frederick douglass.; harlem renaissance.; modern poetry.; motherhood.; white supremacist.
    Scope: 1 online resource (213 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
  9. The play of words :
    blood ties and power relations in Aeschylus' Oresteia /
    Author: Chesi, Giulia Maria,
    Published: 2014.; ©2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin, [Germany] :

    "The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of... more

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    "The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this research challenges the reader with some open questions: who is Clytemnestra? Where is justice if a mother dies? By reading the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role of Clytemnestra. It also breaks silence among scholars, who have generally portrayed Clytemnestra as the bad mother who kills the children's father and as the bad wife who betrays her husband.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-11-039021-3; 3-11-033433-X
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    Series: Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes, ; Volume 26
    Subjects: Familie <Motiv>; Gewalt <Motiv>; HISTORY / Ancient / General.
    Other subjects: Aeschylus.: Oresteia.; Clytemnestra, Queen of Mycenae.; Aeschylus.; Oresteia.; justice.; motherhood.; tragic language.
    Scope: 1 online resource (232 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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  10. The wedding dress :
    meditations on word and life /
    Author: Howe, Fanny.
    Published: 2003.
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley :

    In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's... more

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    In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role and the condition of doubt. In these original meditations on bewilderment, motherhood, imagination, and art-making, Howe takes on conventional systems of belief and argues for another, brave way of proceeding. In the essays "Immanence" and "Work and Love" and those on writers such as Carmelite nun Edith Stein, French mystic Simone Weil, Thomas Hardy, and Ilona Karmel-who were particularly affected by political, philosophical, and existential events in the twentieth century--she directly engages questions of race, gender, religion, faith, language, and political thought and, in doing so, expands the field of the literary essay. A richly evocative memoir, "Seeing Is Believing," situates Howe's own domestic and political life in Boston in the late '60s and early '70s within the broader movement for survival and social justice in the face of that city's racism. Whether discussing Weil, Stein, Meister Eckhart, Saint Teresa, Samuel Beckett, or Lady Wilde, Howe writes with consummate authority and grace, turning bewilderment into a lens and a light for finding our way.

     
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