Kate Zambreno Heroines

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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 could devise a new feminist discourse, writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon.
• In Heroines, Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship.
• Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it-from T.
• S.
• Eliot's New Criticism to the writings of such mid-century intellectuals as Elizabeth Hardwick and Mary McCarthy to the occasional girl-on-girl crime of the Second Wave of feminism-she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles female experience to the realm of the minor, and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds.