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| Title: | Word
: On Being a (Woman) Writer |
| Author: | Jocelyn Burrell (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1558614672 : 9781558614673 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Weight: | .358 Kg. |
| Published: | Feminist Press - May 2004 |
| List Price: | 11.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM: Womens studies |
In this brilliant and moving collection, some of the world's most famous literary voices meditate on what it means to be a woman writer. Despite their increased visibility, women who write are still thought of as different -- sometimes celebrated, sometimes viewed with suspicion and condescension. Here, writers from all over the world explore, defy and embrace 'the woman writer': an indispensable muse to some, a troublesome burden to others; a defiant, even life-threatening identity to others still. Taking nothing as given, these writers explore the varied pleasures and dangers of writing as woman in the contemporary world. The choice to write is rarely considered free of consequences. For some of the writers in this collection, it has meant prison or exile; for others, it has required a defiance of traditions and expectations and a re-creation of identities and communities. For most, it demands a balancing act among family, practical needs and the undeniable will to create. In essays that are deeply personal and fiercely political, these writers topple all fixed ideas of 'the woman writer', revealing themselves as utterly individual and powerfully interconnected authors of the written word, of the human heart, of what we dare to imagine as possible.
