Heroines, new edition

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Heroines is the acclaimed "critical memoir" by New York author and feminist Kate Zambreno. In this book, she virtuously navigates between genres such as autobiography, diary, novel, and essay. At its core lies her dazzling feminist research on the myths of modernism, focusing on figures like Zelda Fitzgerald, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Anaïs Nin, and Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. These women share the experience of being writing women in the 20th century, often labeled as less important authors, reduced to muses for culturally influential men, or even unjustly deemed mentally ill. Heroines has taken the American critics by storm and has become a rare bestseller in literary essays, in which Zambreno reframes feminism for herself and her generation, providing readers with much-needed tools for a new kind of critical discussion about literature and history.