![]() These women of modernism are Zambreno’s heroines, and they have been, she persuasively argues, criminally reduced by the historical and literary record to muses, madwomen, and wives, not as artists and subjects in their own right. Open it, and consult with ghosts: Zelda Fitzgerald dancing furiously through its pages while Vivien(ne) Eliot searches frantically for her elusive husband Jean Rhys pacing her floors with June Miller chattering away in the background. It is also a séance, a ouija board, a medium an old film projector flooding images of modernist literary history on top of the author’s own flickering figure. ![]() ![]() The cover of Heroines suggests collage, and the book is just that – intensely referential, appropriating ideas, language, and history from a variety of sources. ![]()
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