For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
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The Blazing World is an amazing vision which ends as bewilderingly as it begins, making the reader’s head spin.
Wollstonecraft’s literary career was dedicated to questioning power, society and the roles assigned to women.
Niall and Leah’s long distance relationship will test what love and career mean on a planet in crisis.
The documentary is a conversation between mother and daughter, moving between personal memory and historical reckoning.
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
This was a remarkable event because it defied the tired cliché that Africans do not read.
Evidence suggests male writers and readers are in decline – in Australia and elsewhere. Is a male-only publishing house the solution?
Set in a fictionalised Bristol, William explores the pressures of class, gender and modernity.
Dream Count rewards the attentive reader who is willing to let the book slowly add layers of meaning.
Andreé Blouin was erased from history despite her pivotal role in African independence. Today she has a book prize named after her.
Despite the absurd or humorous surface nature of the stories, there is a profundity to the collection that lies just below the surface.
‘Gentleman’s Agreement,’ a novel by Laura Z. Hobson, was considered groundbreaking for its depiction of everyday prejudice.
These stories address the needs and assert the agency of women.
Her book Daughters of Africa brought black women writers into the literary canon.
At a time when women had limited rights, writers found ways to raise the issues of coercion and control.
By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, University of Florida
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD Candidate in English Literature, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
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PhD, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of British Columbia
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Author and Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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Professor in French and Francophone Women’s Writing; Head of Department of French, King's College London
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Professor of English, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in History, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of French, University of Leeds