Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf Queyras Sina
SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONFrom LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found…
Specifikacia Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf Queyras Sina
SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONFrom LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mindThirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.Queyras returns to that contentious first encounter with Virginia Woolf to recover the body and thinking of that time. Using Woolf's A Room of One's Own as a touchstone, this book is both an homage to and provocation of the idea of a room of one's own at the centre of our idea of a literary life.How central is the room? And what happens once we get one? Do we inhabit our rooms? Or do the rooms contain us? Blending memoir, prose, tweets, poetry,