Writings upon Women and Culture from Tessera.

Writings upon Women and Culture from Tessera, edited on Barbara Godard. Second Story Pres (720 Bathurst St Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5 2R4)/312 pp./price unavailable (sb) Tessera, a Canadian periodical dedicated to women's writing and theory, was created in the mid-1980s by dint of a female editorial collective. It was intended to forward the exchange of ideas by means of a system of writing, reply and collective debate. Tessera functions today as a rare bilingual forum for one as well as the other English- and French-speaking writers from all parts of Canada. The journal focuses forward feminine "critical writing with difference," writes Gail Scott undivided of Tessera's early editors. Indeed, earnestly of the writing in this compilation transgresses genre boundaries, frequently taking the form of verse These texts address issues including the representation of women the narration of sex feminist theory, memory and the translation of language the one and the other as a practice and an idea.

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