Bild 4 kopia, by Mateo Romero
We are pleased to announce Lark's forthcoming anthology,
Manifesting the Female Epic,
edited by Sarah Anne Cox & Elizabeth Treadwell.
These are some notes toward a call for work, which we will announce soon (over the summer).
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Manifesting the Female Epic
Manifesting the Female Epic,
edited by Sarah Anne Cox & Elizabeth Treadwell.
These are some notes toward a call for work, which we will announce soon (over the summer).
***
Manifesting the Female Epic
| What lies behind the spiritual is a narrative, is how we picture ourselves. It is valuable for some and less so for others. I don’t wonder why narratives center around the masculine gods and demigods, but I do wonder what a narrative would look like that was composed of and addressed to the feminine. How can we maintain that there is nothing essential about the feminine and make way for a heroine. Can there be no feminine Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Jesus, Siddhartha. Must she be an appendage to a male story, the helper maiden, dutiful wife who functions only within another’s narrative. There is no gender neutral god. Who gives birth to the female epic? --Sarah Anne Cox | Intelligence has no gender. What lies beneath narration is epic, is poetry. Is epic the right word? What are our true terms? What is, what has been, what might be, a female, a feminine, epic? Around our earth, who, historically, have been and who, presently, are, or might be, its practitioners? How do we balance and integrate so many long-held oppositions and mithridate so many false authorizations? And what, beyond/deeper than repairing damage, does the manifestation of the female epic offer us? --Elizabeth Treadwell |
Penelope Weaving, by Dora Wheeler
Grandmother Spider Carrying Fire, by brohoward
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