Joan Darc Concordance

Joan Darc ConcordanceNathalie 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

our own voices in the future issuing a plea for a new course

schreef haar gedichten tijdens en over het wachten en liet het wachten tot zich doordringen zoals het zich voordoet in haar eigen taal en in andere talen

which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom

hij was iemand die de taal nieuw leven inblies

and the self

and language all contribute to the meaning making of this masterpiece

and others via art criticism

Cecil Taylor and many more

as if Basho and Lorca bathed together under the moon

and they gather together as many as are deemed fit to save

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