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The bear woman
- Title
- The bear woman / Karolina Ramqvist ; translated by Saskia Vogel.
- Author
- Ramqvist, Karolina, 1976-
- Publication
- Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022]
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-553 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vogel, Saskia
- Description
- 253 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear Woman takes us on a journey of feminism and literary detective work that spans centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother of three becomes captivated by the image of Marguerite sheltered in a dark cave all alone after her companions have died. The image is an anchor that soon becomes an obsession. She must find out the real story of the woman she calls the Bear Woman. But so much in this history is written so as to gloss over male violence. And that maps and other sources she consults are at times undecipherable. We meet fellow chroniclers of the Bear Woman, such as Queen Marguerite de Navarre, the most powerful woman in Europe, but whose Heptameron (1558) was unjustly dismissed as the writings of a dabbler. We follow the author on a research trip to Paris where she is accompanied by her teenage daughter and the specter of herself as a younger woman, to dinner tables in Mexico and Sweden, to the map division of the New York Public Library, and to bookstores and celebrity hotels in California during the wildfires. Ramqvist explores what it means to write history, how women's stories have been told, and wonders, in this time of narrative fatigue and a new wave feminism that the author does not quite relate to, where we have gotten ourselves to."--
- Uniform Title
- Björnkvinnan. English
- Alternative Title
- Björnkvinnan.
- Subject
- Roberval, Marguerite de > Fiction
- Ramqvist, Karolina, 1976- > Travel
- Roberval, Marguerite de
- To 1763
- Pioneers > Canada > Fiction
- Women pioneers > Canada > Fiction
- Castaways > Canada > Fiction
- Motherhood
- Authorship
- History
- Castaways
- Pioneers
- Travel
- Women pioneers
- Canada > History > To 1763 (New France) > Fiction
- Canada
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- Novels.
- Note
- Translation of: Björnkvinnan.
- "Original Swedish copyright © Karolina Ramqvist, 2019. Translation copyright © Saskia Vogel, 2022. Originally published as Björnkvinnan by Norstedts, 2019." -- Verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 249)
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-553
- ISBN
- 9781552454312
- 1552454312
- OCLC
- 1252413349
- Author
- Ramqvist, Karolina, 1976- author.
- Title
- The bear woman / Karolina Ramqvist ; translated by Saskia Vogel.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First North American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 249)
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Chronological Term
- To 1763
- Added Author
- Vogel, Saskia, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ramqvist, Karolina, 1976- Björnkvinnan. English. Bear woman. Toronto : Coach House Books, 2022 1770566864 9781770566866 (OCoLC)1264407912
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-553