Special Issue: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies
Guest Editor: Edith Frampton
Publication: November 2011
Since the 1970s, women writers from around the globe have engaged, to various degrees, with the promises and challenges of our emphatically visual, virtual, communication-saturated, and rapidly changing world, often experimenting with hybrid subjects and forms. At the same time, these writers have reasserted the enduring pleasures and struggles of embodied existence among stratified social groups on an evolving planet.
This special issue reaffirms the breadth, innovation, and excitement of the field that was addressed in the July 2010 San Diego conference Contemporary Women’s Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies, co-sponsored by the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association and San Diego State University.
The issue includes the first extended theorization of memoirist Diana Athill’s work, by Mary Eagleton, raising important questions about increasing longevity and the literary marketplace today. In addition, Judith Kegan Gardiner discusses graphic novelist Alison Bechdel’s genre-bending lesbian narratives. Exploring the intersections of poetry, performance, exhibition, and the Internet are the issue’s essay on Cecilia Vicuña, by Julie Phillips Brown, and interview of Caroline Bergvall, by Linda A. Kinnahan.
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Susan Stanford Friedman
Clare Hanson