[Vwoolf] To the Lighthouse: edition with UK text distributed in US?

[Valérie Favre]

Dear Professor Mendelson, dear all,

I'm glad Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow were able to provide a useful answer
to this query.

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.

Many Woolf scholars and common readers on this list surely know that Alison
Bechdel's graphic novels are actually being banned from libraries across
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 *Are You
My Mother? –* a thought-provoking and moving reflection on
non-patrilineality, and on literary and feminist filiations which testifies
to how generative Woolf's “thinking back through our mothers” paradigm
still is in the 21st century.

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’s interpretation of a literary
classic – whether one deems it successful or not – be worse than the
violence of “being saved” from queer literature?

Best regards,

Valérie Favre

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Le ven. 2 août 2024 à 18:33, Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> a écrit :

> 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.
>
> Thank you. Saved from Alison Bechdel!
>
> > On Aug 2, 2024, at 11:52 AM, <mhussey at verizon.net> <mhussey at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is the Oxford World's Classics edition edited by David Bradshaw not
> > available in the US (I haven't checked!)
> >
>
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