Retrofuturist Feminism: Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Book of Joan”
Lidia Yuknavitch mines literary and political history for timely heroines based on the iconic Joan of Arc and her contemporary, Christine de Pizan.
Anne Jamison is the author of Poetics en passant (Palgrave, 2010), Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World (Smart Pop, 2013), and the forthcoming Kafka’s Other Prague (Northwestern, 2017). A certified specialist in comparing literatures, she writes about a wide variety of literary and less obviously literary topics, often in tweets. She is associate professor of English at the University of Utah.
Lidia Yuknavitch mines literary and political history for timely heroines based on the iconic Joan of Arc and her contemporary, Christine de Pizan.