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Permanent revolution : essays

Permanent revolution : essays

Scott, Gail, 1945- author.
Book 2021

"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, includi...

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Feminism and literature
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ISBN:
9781771666824
Edition:
First edition
Description:
161 pages : 1 portrait ; 22 cm
Other Title:
Essays. Selections
Notes:
On front cover and title page, "revolution" is rotated 180 degrees
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Introduction
Author's preface
The smell of fish. Excess + the feminine ; The attack of difficult women prose ; Soft things, hard things ; Corpus delicti ; The sutured subject ; The porous text, or The ecology of the small subject
Spaces like stairs. Introduction ; Virginia + Colette ; A visit to Canada ; A story between two chairs ; Paragraphs blowing on a line ; A feminist at the carnival
Acknowledgements
Control Number:
3062183
Other Authors:
Christakos, Margaret, writer of afterword
Container of (work): Scott, Gail, 1945- Spaces like stairs
Marshy, Leila, photographer of author
Whittall, Zoe, writer of foreword
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