Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works

Beverly Rasporich is a professor in the Faculty of Communication and
Culture at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Dance of the
Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro and Magic Off Main:
The Art of Esther Warkov.

From 1967 to 1980, Gail Scott was a bilingual journalist and activist in
Montreal, and a founding editor of a number of political, feminist, and
cultural magazines. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was at the heart of
francophone and anglophone feminist literary and intellectual circles,
writing experimental novels and short stories that opened fiction and
literary theory to new directions in subjectivity and narrative
structures.

The editor of this collection of eight essays has covered Scott’s
oeuvre quite nicely with commentary on Scott’s essays; her first and
second novels, Heroine and Main Brides; and her latest work, My Paris.
She also includes an interview with Scott, a brief biography, and a
bibliography of Scott’s work (which one would assume is meant to be
comprehensive, although it is not lengthy).

This book, part of Guernica Edition’s Writers Series, is clearly
directed at an academic and intellectual readership. It is most suitable
as an educational text for literary, political, and women’s studies.