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Permanent revolution : essays / Gail Scott ; foreword by Zoe Whittall ; afterword by Margaret Christakos.

by Scott, Gail, 1945-

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Book*hug Press, 2021.

Feminism and literature.

Prose literature -- Authorship.

Canadian essays -- 21st century.

9781771666824 (trade pbk)

220 p. ; 22 cm.

Issued also in electronic formats.

Introduction -- Author's preface -- The smell of fish. Excess + the feminine ; The attack of difficult women prose ; Soft things, hard things ; Corpus delicti ; The sutured subject ; The porous text, or The ecology of the small subject -- Spaces like stairs. Introduction ; Virginia + Colette ; A visit to Canada ; A story between two chairs ; Paragraphs blowing on a line ; A feminist at the carnival -- Acknowledgements.

"Permanent Revolution traces Gail Scott’s seminal investigation of prose experiment to the present, including a recreation of the iconic Spaces Like Stairs, in a collection relating the matter of writing in sentences to ongoing social upheaval. 'Where there is no emergency there is likely no real experiment,' she writes. In conversation with other writers across the continent identified with current queer/feminist avant-garde trajectories, including l’écriture-au féminin moment in Québec, and queer continental new narrative, Permanent Revolution is an evolutionary snapshot of contemporaneous Fe-male ground-breaking prose fiction. 'A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Except ignore it,'said Scott. With Permanent Revolution, the writer interrogates her era, twice. Belonging in the canon alongside Maggie Nelson, Lydia Davis and Renee Gladman, Gail Scott is an important feminist thinker of our time"--Publisher.

Literary criticism.

Christakos, Margaret.

Scott, Gail, 1945- Spaces like stairs.

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