In this issue, guest editor Jeanne Heuving collected and organized the readings into two groups, “WRITING EROTICS” and “ON HOW(ever)”
WRITING EROTICS
Jeanne Heuving
Two decades have passed since the highly charged French writings of Hèléne Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Monique Wittig, among others, exploded the Anglo American and Anglo Canadian scene. Since then, these poet-theorists have been explored, forgotten, referenced, delimited, put in their place, put in the wrong place. Yet, the question of female erotic agency that they interjected, perhaps the most salient aspect of their wildfire dissemination, has hardly been attended to, barely answered. The poetic-theoretical writings gathered here meet the earlier rapturous ecriture with their own blithe contemporaneity. Often more attentive to particular social formations, more alert to postmodern singularity, than the French writings, these Anglo Canadian and Anglo American writings like their predecessors produce their erotics as hybrid meditations—writing between discourses, between languages.
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Emerging in 1983 at a time in which xclusionary identity politics often dominated feminist agendas, the small ournal How(ever) defined itself more loosely and variouslyas a sie of exchange for women scholars and writers focused on innovative writing. As Rachel Blau DuPlessis comments in her piece below, How(ever) ad its electronic sequel HOW2 came to nurture four generations of wmen writers, including the dead, but recoverable early generation of mdernist women writers who wrote at the beginning of the twentieth century How did this small, unprepossessing journal come to locate such wide spead writing energies? The following essays begin to establish a small arhive of feminist scholarship on How(ever), no doubt the subject of more femiist scholarship to come.
p>READINGS: guest editor Jeanne Heuving
Bio:
Jeanne Heuving has published critical ork on several modernist
and contemporary innovative women writes, including the book Omissions
Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of arianne Moore. A section
from her recently completed multi-genre mnuscript, Snowball,
appears in HOW2 – no. 4. Her workhas also appeared as
a chapbook, Offering (bcc press), an in Common Knowledge,
Talisman, and Clear Cut. She hs recently completed
a lengthy article, 'A Dialogue About Love [.. . in] the Western
World' / Tracking Leslie Scalapino. She is anassociate professor
at the University of Washington, Bothell, and o the graduate faculty
of the University of Washington. She is a recipint of NEH and Fulbright
research grants and is a member of the Subtext Colective.