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Yay. Posting to celebrate my book-reading head suddenly clicking back into gear after what feels like years of magazine time.
Just finished:
The Time of The Ghost - Diana Wynne Jones. Stupid BiP, why have i never read any DWJ before. This was enthralling, properly spooky and I raced through it. Want more.
Dipping into(1st two, care of divers and kind Barbeloids):
Encountering Kali: in the margins, at the center, ion the west - ed Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J Kripal. Just wonderful, blowing me away, but i've already raved here.
Mad Pride: a celebration of Mad Culture, ed Ted Curtis, Robert Dellar, Esther Leslie, Ben Watson. Was slightly dubious about this, but it's turning out to be a cracker. All sorts of approaches/styles, drawn together by a common challenging of the status of terms like 'madness', 'psychiatry' , 'treatment.
Esther Leslie's on the historical specificity of definitions of Madness, entitled 'Mad Pride and Prejudice', is a highlight thus far. Intelligent and angry. it rocks.
and a couple I haven't read for years, but am enjoying getting reacquainted with:
Intimate Distance: women, artists and the Body, Rosemary Betterton. Good old postructuralist psychoanalytic feminist art history, which is ringing really true atm. and seeming really easy to read after heavy theory. And she writes wonderfully about some of my fave artists, including Helen Chadwick and Kathe Kollowitz.
Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and teh Avent-Garde - Susan Rubin Suleiman. An old fave this, which has been much quoted and improved on/probably even made redundant. but is wonderful to read the original again.
Nuanced critiques of ecrtiture feminin which validate as well as attack, and a wonderful delineation of how the myth of Woman functions in the work of male avant-garde writers, as well as proposing a feminist poetics of the a-g.
Yay to reading! |
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