Joan Darc Haroldo de Campos Merel van Slobbe

Merel van Slobbe

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Filling each page with fluids and viscera she plunges into the palpable

its insistence that taking the part of things means taking words at their most etymological everydayness

and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness

Joan Darc Haroldo de Campos Merel van SlobbeNathalie Quintane (trans. by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immediate life and evoking the paradoxes and nuances that made Joan's life a double onewarrior on the surface and austere virgin underneath. Quintane works this into a metaphor for contemporary feminist self performance