The Literary Workshop
The Chaotic Space Where Books Are Made
Monique Wittig author Ann Jefferson translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Publishing:14th Jul '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 14th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A bold, revelatory argument for the power of language by leading radical lesbian feminist and author of The Straight Mind
The Literary Workshop takes readers inside Monique Wittig's creative process, unlocking the practice of writing both in material and political terms. Wittig provides her most complete account of how literature and politics work together. Part of the generation that revolutionized French literature, Wittig reveals the secret of her craft: that the work a writer does with language is itself a form of resistance.
Born and raised in France, Monique Wittig (1935-2003) was a driving force in second-wave feminism and one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. A provocative thinker, she famously declared that lesbians are not women and introduced women into a materialist framework by treating them as a class. Wittig is the author of, among other titles, The Straight Mind, Les Guérillères, and The Lesbian Body. Her debut novel, The Opoponax, won Le Prix Medicis.
Wittig became a celebrity in the American women's movement. Her collection of essays, The Straight Mind (1992), is witty, imaginative and, as ever, experimental. It is her imaginative use of style-as-politics that will be her lasting legacy, influencing writers as diverse as Kathy Acker and Jeanette Winterson. * Guardian *
A key figure in French feminism, perhaps the foremost theorist of a profoundly radical lesbianism * Publishers Weekly *
A dazzling writer. Her words are lucid and gleaming like moonlight -- Edna O’Brien, author of The Country Girls
ISBN: 9781804294451
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 8mm
Weight: 113g
112 pages
Paperback original