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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4"><br clear="all"></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Dear
Professor Mendelson,<span></span></span></font><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> dear all</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">,</span><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">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 lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Best regards,<span></span></span></font><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><br></span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Valérie
Favre</span></font><span></span></span>
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<font size="4"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://perso.univ-paris1.fr/vfavre__;!!KGKeukY!x8_FQ9YmwhPkjvLzEtn5Iz1arJNzuxhkIrvkaVe1vitG7WCNtvtLw31bKZEkZVGXt9_hYj2XYcvZTDT_JFk$" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Valérie Favre</a><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"> (elle/ielle—she/they)</span></font></p><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">
Maîtresse de conférences en études anglophones/Associate Professor in English<br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"></span></font></div>
<font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.pantheonsorbonne.fr/page-perso/vfavre__;!!KGKeukY!x8_FQ9YmwhPkjvLzEtn5Iz1arJNzuxhkIrvkaVe1vitG7WCNtvtLw31bKZEkZVGXt9_hYj2XYcvZIWEj41s$" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pantheonsorbonne.fr/page-perso/vfavre</a></span></font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 2 août 2024 à 18:33, Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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">mhussey@verizon.net</a>> <<a href="mailto:mhussey@verizon.net" target="_blank">mhussey@verizon.net</a>> 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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