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A manifesto for “toxic girls” that reclaims the wives and mistresses of modernism for literature and feminism. I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order—pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.” —from Heroines On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called Frances Farmer Is My Sister , arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist “wives and mistresses.” In her blog entries, Zambreno reclaimed the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, Frances Farmer Is My Sister helped create a community where today's “toxic girls” co

Who reads Heroines (Semiotext(e)?

Author

Kate Zambreno

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584351146

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Memoir

Rating

4.2 / 5 (891 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14