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Literary Recovery, #ReclaimHerName, Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Sandra Zagarell, Oberlin College Consider some of the propositions that inform the Reclaim Her Name project. One: “the author” is a singular, unified person with a “true” name. Two: that true name is a woman’s name, which she had to … Continue reading
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A Response to Baileys’ #reclaimhername: A Forum on the Challenges of Literary Recovery
In early August, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and their corporate sponsor Baileys (yes, Baileys of Irish cream liqueur fame) launched the Reclaim Her Name project, “25 books previously published under male pen names, with the real female authors’ names … Continue reading
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Which “Women” Are Prized? On Racialized Gender
Christine “Xine” Yao, University College London #ReclaimHerName invites us to affectively participate in the triumph of rescuing benighted women authors from the grasp of an agèd patriarchal literary tradition that has forced them to toil under the false mask of … Continue reading
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Reclaim the Author’s Brand Name?
Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University (Retired) At a yard sale, I once saw a bundle of towels of miscellaneous sizes and colors and degrees of usedness laid out. The seller insisted it was a set because she had … Continue reading
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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 