Connecting Literature: Palestinian Voices Across The Cultural Divide Published December 29th, 2020 - 12:23 GMT
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There is a long and rich history of examples” she continued, “spanning political, guerrilla, cultural, material and rhetorical solidarity.”
A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929.
Here she argues that a woman requires a room of her own and money if she is to write good books. More recently, her notion has been debunked by women of color, in particular the Muskogee poet Joy Harjo, who claims that for her, the “world begins at a kitchen table.” It is there that life abounds, thereby becoming a space where she best writes.