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Women Among Monuments: Solitude, Permission, and the Pursuit of Female Genius (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459752627)
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xA lyrical meditation on the enduring obstacles women artists and writers face in a world still unaccustomed to recognizing female genius.
Voted the "Next Picasso" in high school, Kasia Van Schaik's life has led her from her native South Africa to British Columbia to Berlin to Montreal, first as a struggling student, then a nanny, and then as a burgeoning academic studying some of the world's most famous artists. Throughout this time, she found herself thinking about what it means for a young woman to take up a mantle usually reserved for white heterosexual male genius. Drawing on a diverse web of literary and cultural sources and artistic icons -- from Georgia O'Keeffe to Ana Mendieta, Gertrude Stein to Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Marmon Silko to Bernadette Mayer -- as well as women from Kasia's own life, Women Among Monuments asks some essential questions. What, beyond a room of one's own, are the necessary conditions for female genius? Where does the inner flint of artistic permission come from? What is the oxygen that keeps it burning?
In her memoir interwoven with incisive biographies of female solitude, constraint, and perseverance, Kasia Van Schaik blazes a path for more inclusive artmaking practices, communities, and monuments.
Author: Kasia Van Schaik
ISBN-10: 1459752627
ISBN-13: 9781459752627
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Voted the "Next Picasso" in high school, Kasia Van Schaik's life has led her from her native South Africa to British Columbia to Berlin to Montreal, first as a struggling student, then a nanny, and then as a burgeoning academic studying some of the world's most famous artists. Throughout this time, she found herself thinking about what it means for a young woman to take up a mantle usually reserved for white heterosexual male genius. Drawing on a diverse web of literary and cultural sources and artistic icons -- from Georgia O'Keeffe to Ana Mendieta, Gertrude Stein to Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Marmon Silko to Bernadette Mayer -- as well as women from Kasia's own life, Women Among Monuments asks some essential questions. What, beyond a room of one's own, are the necessary conditions for female genius? Where does the inner flint of artistic permission come from? What is the oxygen that keeps it burning?
In her memoir interwoven with incisive biographies of female solitude, constraint, and perseverance, Kasia Van Schaik blazes a path for more inclusive artmaking practices, communities, and monuments.
Author: Kasia Van Schaik
ISBN-10: 1459752627
ISBN-13: 9781459752627
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2026
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
By Kasia Van Schaik
xKasia Van Schaik is the author of the linked story collection We Have Never Lived On Earth, which was longlisted for the Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Concordia First Book Prize and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Electric Literature, the LA Review of Books, the Best Canadian Poetry, and the CBC. Kasia holds a PhD in English Literature from McGill University. She lives in Fredericton, where she teaches English and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick.
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