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<p>I enormously admire Alison Bechdel's books and have been reading
them forever. I only wish her cover illustration to To the
Lighthouse had been printed somewhere else, and not shaping
anyone's perception of the book by being printed on the cover. I
don't think my students have much to worry about on LGBTQIA+
issues: I'm teaching two seminars next year: one on Virginia
Woolf, the other on W. H. Auden.<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/2/2024 1:13 PM, Valérie Favre
wrote:<br>
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Professor Mendelson,<span></span></span></font><font
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dear all</span><span class="gmail_default"
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"
lang="EN-US">I'm glad
Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow were able to provide a
useful answer to <span class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">this
</span>query. <span></span></span></font><font
size="4"><span
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lang="EN-US"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"
lang="EN-US">I'm afraid
mine may be slightly off topic, and yet, reading that
anyone, including a
distinguished professor of literature who has
certainly been reading and
teaching Woolf's oeuvre for decades now, may think
themselves “saved from
Alison Bechdel” prompted the following thoughts. <span></span></span></font><font
size="4"><span
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lang="EN-US"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"
lang="EN-US">Many Woolf
scholars and common readers on this list surely know
that Alison Bechdel's graphic
novels are actually being banned <span
class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">from</span>
libraries <span class="gmail_default"
style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">across</span> the US
because of the
conservative backlash which notably targets LGBTQI+
authors. Many of you may also
know that Bechdel surely is one of the most talented
graphic novelists of her
generation, and that she takes an essential, and
necessary, part in enforcing Virginia
Woolf’s literary and queer heritage; this, most
notably, in her second graphic memoir
<i>Are You My Mother? –</i> a thought-provoking
and moving reflection on non-patrilineality, and on
literary and feminist
filiation<span class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">s</span>
which testifies to how generative Woolf's “thinking
back through
our mothers” paradigm still is in the 21st century. <span></span></span></font><font
size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"
lang="EN-US"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"
lang="EN-US">I ask you
to consider what is lost in eschewing Bechdel’s
participation in Woolf studies;
consider the signals you send to LGBTQIA+ aligned
students and scholars;
consider the assistance you are giving the effort to
ban Bechdel, even unwillingly.
Can an artist’<span class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">s</span>
interpretation of a literary classic – whether one
deems it successful
or not – be worse than the violence of “being saved”
from queer literature?<span></span></span></font><font
size="4"><span
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lang="EN-US"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"
lang="EN-US">Best regards,<span></span></span></font><span
lang="EN-US"><font size="4"><span
style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4"><span
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 2 août 2024 à 18:33,
Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf <<a
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style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It
is indeed - and seems to have been available here only since
2023, so I didn’t know it was available the last time I
looked. <br>
<br>
Thank you. Saved from Alison Bechdel! <br>
<br>
> On Aug 2, 2024, at 11:52 AM, <<a
href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">mhussey@verizon.net</a>>
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wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Is the Oxford World's Classics edition edited by David
Bradshaw not<br>
> available in the US (I haven't checked!)<br>
> <br>
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