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Author Elizabeth Abel Presents Her Book on Virginia Woolf's Writing, "Odd Affinities"
Experience a new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of “long modernism.” Author ELIZABETH ABEL will be joined in conversation by CLAIRE KAHANE.
In recent decades, Virginia Woolf’s contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition. Elizabeth Abel dislodges Woolf from her iconic place within this tradition to uncover her shadowy presence in other literary genealogies. "Odd Affinities" will appeal to students and scholars working in New Modernist studies, comparative literature, gender and sexuality studies, and African American studies.
ELIZABETH ABEL is the John F. Hotchkis Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of "Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis" and "Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow" and the editor or coeditor of four collections, most recently, "Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism".
CLAIRE KAHANE is a Professor of English Emerita at the University at Buffalo and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. A feminist-psychoanalytic critic, she has written on modern American and British fiction, Gothic literature, and Holocaust trauma. Her book "Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915" (1995) concludes with a chapter on Virginia Woolf’s "The Voyage Out". A memoir, "Nine Lives: Adventures in Pursuit of a Self", is forthcoming later this year from Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
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