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After Sappho: A Novel
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trade...
After Sappho
It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her – and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted... But she is sure she can sell a painting – and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered. ... In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller – and fuller. Sarah Bernhardt – Colette – Eleanora Duse – Lina Poletti – Josephine Baker – Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a book as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past – their constant efforts to push against the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a woman – that also offers hope for our present, and our futures.
The Bodies of Others
The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.
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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation. Each chapter discusses and reframe current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed embrace politics of the...
Después de Safo
En el jardín de Natalie Barney, en el París del cambio de siglo, un grupo de escritoras, artistas y activistas se dan cita para interpretar los versos de Safo. Las llaman amazonas, viragos, tríbadas e invertidas, y son algunas de las mujeres más fascinantes del siglo XX: Colette, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Romaine Brooks, Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, Eva Palmer o Lina Poletti. En Después de Safo, como en el Orlando de Virginia Woolf, la realidad y la ficción se fusionan para trazar un puente que conecta las búsquedas, las resistencias y las reinvenciones de aquellas que, desde el siglo VII a. C. hasta hoy, han sido tocadas por el deseo de vivir y crear libremente. Una historia hecha de fragmentos de muchas historias, hilvanada por la prosa lírica de Selby Wynn Schwartz con la traducción de Aurora Luque (Premio Nacional de Poesía).
Am I Normal?
*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph ***** 'Riveting' Mail on Sunday ***** 'Captivating' Guardian, Book of the Day 'Compelling' Observer Sarah Chaney takes us on an eye-opening and surprising journey into the history of science, revisiting the studies, landmark experiments and tests that proliferated from the early 19th century to find answers to the question: what's normal? These include a census of hallucinations - and even a UK beauty map (which claimed the women in Aberdeen were "the most repellent"). On the way she exposes many of the hangovers that are still with us from these dubious endeavours, from IQ tests to the BMI. Interrogating how the notion and science of standardisation has shaped us all, as individuals and as a society, this book challenges why we ever thought that normal might be a desirable thing to be.
Le figlie di Saffo
«Un capolavoro.» The Telegraph «Provocatorio e originale.» The Guardian «Un esordio di grande impatto. Schwartz riesce a ritrarre momenti di leggerezza pur raccontando le difficoltà delle donne.» The New Yorker «La nascita del modernismo attraverso la storia di femministe realmente vissute.» The New York Times «Una gemma. Una meravigliosa celebrazione di pensatrici pioneristiche che rifiutarono l'obbedienza e l'annullamento di sé stesse. » The Independent «Un esordio che celebra la vita di donne libere e straordinarie in grado di anticipare i tempi.» The New York Times Book Review Viviamo… l’opposto… con audacia. «La nostra prima iniziativa fu quella di cambiarci il nome...
Off Sites
Honorable Mention, ATHE's 2018 Outstanding Book Award Contextualizing the techniques and methods of the incredibly rich and vital genre of site-specific performance, author Bertie Ferdman traces the evolution of that term. Originally used for experimental staging practices and then later also for engaged situational events, site-specific is no longer sufficient for the genre’s many contemporary variations. Using the term off-site, Ferdman illustrates five distinct ways artists have challenged the disciplinary framework of site-specific theatre: blurring the traditional boundaries between the fictional and the real; changing how the audience and actor interact with each other and whether th...
The Sappho Companion
Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story and her sexuality.This remarkable anthology brilliantly displays the way different periods have taken up Sappho's haunting story bringing together many different kinds of work. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Ruth Padel and Jeanette Winterson.
