![]() ![]() But they were too, too much when their desires were thwarted and they kicked up a fuss about it. ![]() There’s a phalanx of Ophelias who fascinated literary men with their complicated and forceful desires. Zambreno: “The chattering woman is the muse of modernism.” (83) These muses have been objectified and erases twice, by literature and then psychiatry. Heroines is centered not on the success stories but on the fuck-ups. Zambreno: “I align myself with a genealogy of erased women.” (157) But rather than reclaim the modernist classics for a feminist reading, or discover exemplary female modernist writers in the shadows of the great men, Zambreno pursues a different tack. Zambreno’ s Heroines (Semiotexte 2012) is in both form and content an attempt at a counter-narrative of modernist literature. ![]() I taught some of it this semester past and made at least a couple of Zambreno converts. After yet another review in the New York Times Book Review about some book about Scott Fitzgerald, I felt it was time to write something about Kate Zambreno’s book Heroines. ![]()
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