Kabe Wilson rearranges words of Woolfs 1929 essay to produce novella anagrammatically entitled Of One Woman Or So
When Virginia Woolf stood up to give a lecture to the Newnham Arts Society in 1928, she started by imagining her audiences puzzlement. But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction, she begins, what has that got to do with a room of ones own?
The title of Olivia NGowfris novella Of One Woman Or So echoes the title of the essay Woolf published in 1929, A Room of Ones Own, which combined the Newnham lecture with another given at Girton College. However, theres little clue in the novellas opening But should I have? Here comes the fear, the sight of it in mid-air, and the heat of the deep connections between this story of a mixed-race girl who ignites controversy at Cambridge University and Woolfs study of gender and literature.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 7 hours ago.
When Virginia Woolf stood up to give a lecture to the Newnham Arts Society in 1928, she started by imagining her audiences puzzlement. But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction, she begins, what has that got to do with a room of ones own?
The title of Olivia NGowfris novella Of One Woman Or So echoes the title of the essay Woolf published in 1929, A Room of Ones Own, which combined the Newnham lecture with another given at Girton College. However, theres little clue in the novellas opening But should I have? Here comes the fear, the sight of it in mid-air, and the heat of the deep connections between this story of a mixed-race girl who ignites controversy at Cambridge University and Woolfs study of gender and literature.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 7 hours ago.