Reviews for Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900

The average rating for Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-15 00:00:00 Dale Vernon I will never forget the powerful and painful stories. I suspect I will come back to re-read this book more than once...

Review # 2 was written on 2020-03-26 00:00:00 John Langridge Anzaldúa is an amazing person, a person who has so clearly tapped into el cenote, the sinkhole into subterranean springs, and conducts the flows of those depths upwards to her readers and interlocutors. This book is fascinating for those who are familiar with her work and want to go deeper into the person...especially of interest is seeing how she conceived of her spirituality and embrace of Jungian psychology. The book is a bit tragic because she references so many writing projects and so many promises of concepts and terms which were never realized before she passed away. There are some gems here, and much to be gained by feeling her rhythm and warmth as a person in these conversations. However, she has a tendency to point back to the concepts she has coined without working them out further or shedding any new light, which leaves me looking for more. She has a discourse of integrated wholeness in her spirituality that I find paradoxical, especially since she is a great thinker of the power of refraction and fragmentation (Coyolxauhqui). I keep looking for more about how these aspects rub against one another, but the Sri Aurobindo and Carlos Castaneda (not to mention Jung) explanations I find obstruct her voice rather than elaborating it. The search continues!