![]() ![]() She struggles with feelings of listlessness and alienation which prompt her to a vigorous examination into the lives of women writers of the past. The work is built upon Zambreno’s own narrative and begins with her move to the Midwest following an offer of employment presented to her husband. Analyzed from a more personal perspective, Zambreno utilizes the stories of these women as a way in which to navigate her own perceived roles as a woman, a wife, and a writer. ![]() My black widows, sometimes they leave widowers, they hang themselves by their own threads.” Comprised of memoir and emotive prose, paired with reflections on literary history, Kate Zambreno’s Heroines forces the reader to address the dominant and often problematic role that modernist women artists are often relegated to within cultural and historical narrative. I circle them, I weave their tales (or unweave the tales spun about them), I wrap my silken webs around them, I devour them. “My sisters, my mistresses, the spiders stalking the center of the web. ![]()
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