Renowned for her fiction, Angela Carter was also a folk singer in the 1960s, played English concertina, and cofounded a folk club. A newly unearthed archive of her notes, musical notations, and recordings provides a window into her folk song praxis. When juxtaposed with her diaries, album sleeve notes, and unpublished papers, a new understanding of Carter’s writing processes emerges. This essay explores her “canorographic” writing or “songful” writing, embodied in avianthropes: the bird-girls in “The Erl-King” and Fevvers in Nights at the Circus. I compare Child Ballad “Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight,” Ovid’s Philomel, and Petrarch’s nightingale with Carter’s bird-women to show how her tropes transcode the singing voice into prose, disclosing the porous boundaries between literature and song and reimagining prose as performance.
{"title":"“Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage”: Avianthropes and the Embodiment of the Canorographic Voice in Angela Carter’s “The Erl-King” and Nights at the Circus","authors":"Polly Paulusma","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAB008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAB008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Renowned for her fiction, Angela Carter was also a folk singer in the 1960s, played English concertina, and cofounded a folk club. A newly unearthed archive of her notes, musical notations, and recordings provides a window into her folk song praxis. When juxtaposed with her diaries, album sleeve notes, and unpublished papers, a new understanding of Carter’s writing processes emerges. This essay explores her “canorographic” writing or “songful” writing, embodied in avianthropes: the bird-girls in “The Erl-King” and Fevvers in Nights at the Circus. I compare Child Ballad “Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight,” Ovid’s Philomel, and Petrarch’s nightingale with Carter’s bird-women to show how her tropes transcode the singing voice into prose, disclosing the porous boundaries between literature and song and reimagining prose as performance.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47380890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities","authors":"Hannah Ackermans","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAB011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAB011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CWW/VPAB011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41892053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay focuses on the intertextual engagement of Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World with Margaret Cavendish’s seventeenth-century fiction. Going beyond a single-text reading, the essay argues that Hustvedt’s critical interventions in the making of a woman’s subjectivity—paratextual and intermedial—are informed by early modern manuscript culture and ekphrasis. As commonplacing affords opportunities for a compiler to assume plural voices, the commonplace books created by Burden, the protagonist, present a nuanced unfolding of a woman’s subjectivity on textual and visual levels. Notably, Burden’s self-fashioning and ensuing self-dissolution are prompted by deep-seated anger. Hustvedt, even in the face of her protagonist’s tragic end, celebrates the multiplicity that attends a woman’s heroic journey in attaining singularity.
{"title":"Ad Singularitatem: Multiplicity, Commonplaced Selves, and Miscellanies in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World","authors":"I. Ha","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAB009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAB009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay focuses on the intertextual engagement of Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World with Margaret Cavendish’s seventeenth-century fiction. Going beyond a single-text reading, the essay argues that Hustvedt’s critical interventions in the making of a woman’s subjectivity—paratextual and intermedial—are informed by early modern manuscript culture and ekphrasis. As commonplacing affords opportunities for a compiler to assume plural voices, the commonplace books created by Burden, the protagonist, present a nuanced unfolding of a woman’s subjectivity on textual and visual levels. Notably, Burden’s self-fashioning and ensuing self-dissolution are prompted by deep-seated anger. Hustvedt, even in the face of her protagonist’s tragic end, celebrates the multiplicity that attends a woman’s heroic journey in attaining singularity.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CWW/VPAB009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44933020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing","authors":"G. Whitlock","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpab012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpab012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cww/vpab012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42611656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers the spatial politics of nation-building in two novels by ethnic minority women writers from Malaysia and Singapore. Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day depicts the claustrophobic Rajasekharan household, showing how the perversion of the patriarchal heteronormative family is linked to the restrictive ethno-nationalism of a new Malaysian nation and its betrayal of its ethnic minority subjects. In Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Inheritance, ethnic minority subjects have a place in the fast-developing new nation of Singapore because of its official multiracialism but only if they are quiescent, conform to sexual norms, and are not hampered by disability. Both writers question the historical building of national norms, arguing for a remapping of the nation’s spaces in the name of more equitable and inclusive futures.
{"title":"The Spatial Politics of Nation-Building: Minority Women Writers in Anglophone Malaysian and Singapore Literatures","authors":"A. Poon","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAB003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAB003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article considers the spatial politics of nation-building in two novels by ethnic minority women writers from Malaysia and Singapore. Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day depicts the claustrophobic Rajasekharan household, showing how the perversion of the patriarchal heteronormative family is linked to the restrictive ethno-nationalism of a new Malaysian nation and its betrayal of its ethnic minority subjects. In Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Inheritance, ethnic minority subjects have a place in the fast-developing new nation of Singapore because of its official multiracialism but only if they are quiescent, conform to sexual norms, and are not hampered by disability. Both writers question the historical building of national norms, arguing for a remapping of the nation’s spaces in the name of more equitable and inclusive futures.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CWW/VPAB003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44899916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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