Book of the Week: CHICANES by Clara Schulmann

Our Book of the Week, CHICANES by Clara Schulmann, is a collection of short pieces about voice and women’s experience. Schulmann dips and pivots, captures, and lets fly. As well as interrogating the events of her own life (especially the loss of a job and a break-up with a lover), she delves into literature and classics, art and film, exploring how women use their voice and how they are used (or are stigmatised) by their voice. Her digressions move against each other, building questions and ideas. Through a medley of female voices, from anglophone and francophone theorists to the stranger on the street, Schulmann weaves an anarchic, polyphonic essay where wayward words take seed.
>>Read Stella’s review.
>>Many translating voices.
>>The author reads from Zizanies while wearing five different jackets.
>>Your copy of Chicanes.
>>Other excellent books from Les Fugitives (one of our favourite small publishers).