Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770566066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man while falling for a woman, a life that makes sense after her deep involvement in far left politics during the turbulent seventies of Quebec, a life whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it. A new, revised edition of a seminal work of edgy, experimental feminism. With a foreword by Eileen Myles.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564782977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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A Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937658038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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A haunting new novel from the author of My Paris
Author: Gail Herman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451532627
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King was a civil rights leader in her own right, playing a prominent role in the African American struggle for racial equality in the 1960s. Here's a gripping portrait of a smart, remarkable woman. Growing up in Alabama, Coretta Scott King graduated valedictorian from her high school before becoming one of the first African American students at Antioch College in Ohio. It was there that she became politically active, joining the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). After her marriage to Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta took part in the Civil Rights Movement. Following her husband's assassination in 1968, she assumed leadership of the movement. Later in life she was an advocate for the Women's Rights Movement, LGBT rights, and she worked to end apartheid in South Africa.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Book*hug Press
ISBN: 9781771666824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Permanent Revolution traces Gail Scott's seminal investigation of prose experiment to the present, including a recreation of the iconic Spaces Like Stairs, in a collection relating the matter of writing in sentences to ongoing social upheaval. "Where there is no emergency there is likely no real experiment," she writes. In conversation with other writers across the continent identified with current queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l'écriture-au féminin moment in Québec, and queer continental new narrative, Permanent Revolution is an evolutionary snapshot of contemporaneous Fe-male ground-breaking prose fiction. "A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Except ignore it," said Scott. With Permanent Revolution, the writer interrogates her era, twice. Belonging in the canon alongside Maggie Nelson, Lydia Davis and Renee Gladman, Gail Scott is an important feminist thinker of our time.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 9781552451014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted. Its initial appearance, in 1981, caused a stir; at a time when linear narrative was the m.o. of feminist writing, Gail Scott had the nerve to fracture and dislocate her stories and her language. Spare Parts is as vital as it was twenty years ago. Scott's densely textured tales about the world of growing up female in a small town, where violence lurks just beneath the skin, recreate the uncertainty of life. Their incantatory language and tough imagery are as relevant and crucial now as they were then. This edition adds two new pieces, including 'Bottoms Up', an essay on narrative which first appeared on the 'Narrativity' website Scott co-edits.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1552451429
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes renowned writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Lydia Davis and Kevin Killian, writers who have spent years pondering the meaning of storytelling and how storytelling functions in our culture, as well as presenting a new generation of brilliant thinkers and writers, like Christian Bk, Corey Frost, Derek McCormack and Lisa Robertson. Contemporizing the friendly anecdotal style of Montaigne and written by daring writers of different ages, of different origins, from many different regions of the continent, from Mexico to Montreal, these essays run the gamut of mirth, prose poetry, tall tales and playful explorations of reader/writer dynamics. They discuss aesthetics founded on new explorations in the field of narrative, the mystery that is the body, questions of how representation may be torqued to deal with gender and sexuality, the experience of marginalized people, the negotiation between different orders of time, the 'performance' of outlaw subject matter. Brave, energetic and fresh, Biting the Error tells a whole new story about narrative. Biting the Error is edited by Mary Burger, Robert Glck, Camille Roy and Gail Scott, the co-founders of the Narrativity Website Magazine, based at the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Talonbooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The portrait of a woman facing the end of the century and creating a history of the present.
Author: Gail R. Scott
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555953034
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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E. AmbroseWebster (1869-1935) is among the earliestand most accomplished American modernists. Hepainted rhapsodic landscape compositions of blazingsunlight and explosive color, which even today arestartling for their innovation.
Author: Gail Hawkes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Perspectives in Human Sexuality is an authoritative and critical overview of key debates, research findings and theories in the important area of sex and sexuality. Written in a clear and accessible style, controversial issues are discussed in an informative and fair, balanced manner. With its sociological orientation, Perspectives in Human Sexuality employs a range of empirical and theoretical resources, including those which utilise scientific, medical, historical and ethical knowledge in order to elucidate the critical issues affecting contemporary life. This is the first textbook written especially for undergraduate students to offer a detailed and comprehensive introduction to sex and sexuality from an Australian and New Zealand perspective. Examines controversial issues such as sex and age, sex work and gay, lesbian and queer sex in a fair and balanced manner Leading Australian and New Zealand authors in the field of sex and sexuality have contributed to the book. They have written in a clear, concise manner for the least experienced reader Each chapter provides an overview section and summary, questions to encourage reflective approaches to the topic, a glossary of key words and concepts, and a further reading section including details of websites, associations and journals The book deals with sexuality from an Australasian perspective, addressing the specific concerns and interests of an Australasian audience, providing it with a unique standing in the current market
