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FeaturedUnfeeling and Embodiment in the Balkans in the 1930s: Rebecca West in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
By Nicola Dimitriou Rebecca West, in recent years, has been rediscovered in her own right. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) [1], Andrew Hammond highlights, is a prime example of a travelogue that would ‘most surely be considered one of the greatest works of the modernist period if only it had not been written in… Read more
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FeaturedA Web-Accessible Database and Travel Map Tracing Rebecca West’s Journey Through Yugoslavia as Described in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
By Mark Polczynski ~ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5427-7601 Introduction Novelist, biographer, journalist, and critic Rebecca West (born Cicily Isabel Fairfield) has been called one of the 20th century’s most brilliant and forceful writers. In the mid-1930s she made several trips to the Balkans to gather materials for her 1941 opus magnum Black Lamb and Grey Falcon – A… Read more
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FeaturedBeyond liberation: using Rebecca West to complicate images of Muslim womanhood
By Zehra Munir Early on in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West describes a veiled woman drinking coffee. She sketches out the scene in careful detail, and pays special attention to a moment when the wind presses against the woman’s clothing [1]. Throughout the book, West varies in her attitude towards the Muslim women… Read more
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FeaturedThe Rebecca West Mystery
By Carl Rollyson I admire Sylvia Plath’s concern with politics, with understanding how her own life is connected to the polity. She shares this conviction with Rebecca West, and almost every day I think about what an opportunity was missed because Plath did not know or understand Rebecca West. Plath watched West testify at the… Read more
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FeaturedMy Famous Great Aunt Rebecca: Chronicles of a Struggling Literary Executor
By Helen Macleod Atkinson “Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It… Read more
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FeaturedRed Hands and Cheap stays: class in the return of the soldier
By Rachel Malik Rebecca West’s first novel The Return of the Soldier was first published in 1918 and has just been republished for the Virago 40 series. At the beginning of the novel, the soldier of the title is injured and sent back from France. But Chris Baldry, though an important character, is secondary to the women… Read more
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Book Review: The Business of Reading: A Hundred Years of the English Novel by Julian Lovelock
The Business of Reading: A Hundred Years of the English Novel, by Julian Lovelock (The Lutterworth Press, £20), https://www.lutterworth.com/product/business-of-reading/ By Danny Kielty In recent years it has proved harder to bump into anyone who has read Rebecca West’s writings outside of the rather cloistered environs of postgraduate literature seminars. This is especially true of The… Read more
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