Chicanes

Through a seemingly anarchic but subtly crafted chorus of female voices, from feminist thinkers in English and French, to the stranger on the street, Clara Schulman's essay blurs the boundaries between body and art; personal and political.
Through a subtly crafted chorus of female voices from Edith Wharton to bell hooks, to Schulmann's contemporaries, Clara Schulmann blurs the boundaries between body and art; personal and political. As she tries to collect them for an essay she is planning to write, other women's words begin interfering in Clara Schulmann's life - heard on the radio, in podcasts, songs, and films; words of novelists, feminist intellectuals, friends or strangers overheard in the street. Like weeds, like bad seeds, these wayward words invade her psyche, reshaping the essay that she once had in mind into a picaresque adventure. Sinuous, evocative and timely, CHICANES reveals Clara Schulmann as an author whose own voice is going to hold weight in years to come. In a further fine-tuning of Clara Schulmann's experiment, her work comes into English through the work of eight female translators.

Contributor: Natasha Lehrer (Translated by), Lauren Elkin (Translated by), Naima Rashid (Translated by), Sophie Lewis (Translated by), Ruth Diver (Translated by), Jennifer Higgins (Translated by), Jessica Spivey (Translated by), Clem Clement (Translated by)

Translator: Natasha Lehrer, Lauren Elkin, Naima Rashid, Sophie Lewis, Ruth Diver, Jennifer Higgins, Jessica Spivey, Clem Clement

Pages: 210

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