Gail Scott: Essays on Her WorksLianne Moyes Guernica Editions, 2002 - Broj stranica: 242 This collection of essays examines the varied and influential work of Montreal writer Gail Scott, the feminist and experimental writer who placed Quebec women's writing on the map. Whether working as a bilingual journalist covering political and cultural events in 1970s Quebec, an anglophone writing with the many languages of Montreal in her ears, or a queer writer whose work with "new narrative" links her with writers across the United States, Scott transforms the spaces between communities into spaces of cultural and intellectual possibility. These essays explore her novels, essays, and short stories, which engage a range of issues central to contemporary thought including: the porosity of the subject; the body as sensory interface; history as montage; the novel as multimedia installation; the cosmopolitan center as capitalist and colonialist ruin; and realism as an accumulation of time frames, angles of vision, and events going on simultaneously in different spaces.This collection of essays examines the varied and influential work of Montreal writer Gail Scott, the feminist and experimental writer who placed Quebec women's writing on the map. Whether working as a bilingual journalist covering political and cultural events in 1970s Quebec, an anglophone writing with the many languages of Montreal in her ears, or a queer writer whose work with "new narrative" links her with writers across the United States, Scott transforms the spaces between communities into spaces of cultural and intellectual possibility. These essays explore her novels, essays, and short stories, which engage a range of issues central to contemporary thought including: the porosity of the subject; the body as sensory interface; history as montage; the novel as multimedia installation; the cosmopolitan center as capitalist and colonialist ruin; and realism as an accumulation of time frames, angles of vision, and events going on simultaneously in different spaces. |
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Acknowledgments | 6 |
After Reading Gail Scotts Spaces Like Stairs by Camille | 19 |
Freedoms Just Another Word For Nothin Left | 37 |
Heroine by Frank | 52 |
Main Brides and the PostIdentity | 72 |
The Nadja and Nanette of Gail Scotts Main Brides | 101 |
Gail Scott on The Main | 117 |
The Paris Arcades the Ponte Vecchio and the Comma | 142 |
Gail Scott Lianne Moyes and Corey | 208 |
Brief Biography of Gail Scott | 231 |
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