In her cult-classic text Heroines, Zambreno’s prose is performative; in The Light Room she reflects on motherhood and care
Heroines and The Light Room by Kate Zambreno: An evolution from selfie mode to third-person universality
Heroines is a book of “gooshy, goopy, confessions”, a “bulimic” manifesto for, what Jamie Hood describes in an introduction to the book as the “chaotic sadgirl and her unclassifiable art of too-muchness”. The prose is a gluttonous and performative. “My mode of reading is masturbatory,” she writes. “Sometimes I feel guilty about my lubed fingers all over library books.” The author seems at once to be criticising and propagating the hypothesis that “a woman is nature, violence, instability”.Nineteen Eighty-Four turns 75: the older George Orwell’s dystopian novel grows, the more urgent it feelsin The Light Room, Zambreno shifts the angle of the lens.
Zambreno discusses an essay about a writer who didn’t want to “be a mother because she didn’t want to become a landscape”. Herein lies the primary point of contrast between the two texts: in The Light Room, Zambreno shifts the angle of the lens. Discussing art, as a means of looking outwards, she is no longer in selfie mode, where the histories of literary wives are employed to narrate her own story.
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