Description
Finalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal
A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates.
From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs. In conversation with other writers working in queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l'écriture-au-féminin in Québec and continental New Narrative, these essays provide an evolutionary snapshot of Scott's ongoing prose experiment that hinges the matter of writing to ongoing social upheaval. Scott herself points to the heart of this book, writing, "Where there is no emergency, there is likely no real experiment."
With a Foreword by Zoe Whittall and an Afterword by Margaret Christakos.
Author: Gail Scott
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Published: 05/25/2021
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.50h x 8.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781771666824
ISBN10: 177166682X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
- Literary Criticism | LGBTQ+
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
About the Author
Gail Scott is the author of Spare Parts (1981), Heroine (1987, re-issued in 2019 with an introduction by Eileen Myles), Main Brides (1993), My Paris (1999), Spare Parts Plus Two (2002), and The Obituary (2010). Her essays are collected in Spaces Like Stairs (1989) and in La Théorie, un dimanche (1988) which was translated into English as Theory, A Sunday (2013). Scott is co-editor of the New Narrative anthology: Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (2004). Her translation of Michael Delisle's Le désarroi du matelot was shortlisted for a 2001 Governor General's Literary Award. A memoir, based in Lower Manhattan during the early Obama years, is forthcoming. Scott lives in Montréal.