{"id":1766,"date":"2010-06-06T05:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T05:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2010-06-06T05:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T05:01:06","slug":"1766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2010\/06\/06\/1766\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read opening bits of Manfacturing Consent, found handy-dandy as ever on the side of the road. Side of road is providing amply these days. After I read the first few paras was left with this daunting sense of Manfacturing Content and what have I manufactured myself&#8230; far too much attention on male writers!<\/p>\n<p>It is a source of national shame that Helen Potrebenko&#8217;s Sometimes They Sang is out of print and remains so. It should also be a source of major feminist agitation! An agitation that would heave it back onto the page! Someday I will be in position I hope to do something about it. This slim novel must be back in palms. It&#8217;s unique in it&#8217;s rural -urban considering and the woman is looking for a job. We live in a province with a turbulent labour history and where is it on the page? People are exasperated this very minute searching for jobs and they&#8217;ll search even harder in their fiction to find someone engaged in such a task.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eilisnidhuibhne.net\/\">\u00c9il\u00eds N\u00ed Dhuibhne<\/a> is another writer whose work I should have written about. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Betty Lambert&#8217;s novel <strong>Crossings<\/strong> is another novel that should be revisited and I&#8217;d like to do an event that would bring some women together to revisit it and consider it today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the challenges of writing such pieces is where to place them. It is becoming particularly woeful in Canada to find outlets.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">**<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">I am excited to be collaborating with a visual artist on a performance piece for the autumn. Today we had our first meeting to discuss ideas and it was an inspired and buzzing exchange.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:small;\"><span style=\"line-height:normal;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read opening bits of Manfacturing Consent, found handy-dandy as ever on the side of the road. Side of road is providing amply these days. After I read the first few paras was left with this daunting sense of Manfacturing Content and what have I manufactured myself&#8230; far too much attention on male writers! It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,101,104],"tags":[238,465,567,634,637,1241],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-vancouver","category-visual-art","tag-betty-lambert","tag-feminism","tag-helen-potrebenko","tag-irish-literature","tag-irish-women-writers","tag-vancouver-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}