Lane Glisson

Using the example of Marcel Proust's character Albertine, this book argues that the trope of the disappeared woman stems from the male narrator's inability see beyond his own projections; women’s narratives challenge those constraints.Lane Glisson adopts a transnational, comparatist approach to examine the ways that authors Rachel Kushner, Elena Ferrante, Kamala Das, Liliana Heker, and Cristina Rivera Garza diverge from...