NUMBERVirginia 92 Woolf Miscellany FALL 2017/WINTER 2018 To the Readers: You can read the VWM online on some years, his/her racial identity remains static. Woolf and Indigenous Literatures Wordpress Discussing the emphasis in Orlando on the importance of clothing to the performance of https://virginiawoolfmiscellany. The call for papers for this issue of the Virginia gender, for instance, Sprouse notes how Orlando’s Woolf Miscellany invited contributors to consider wordpress.com/ “altered clothing reveal[s] an identity entangled Woolf’s writings alongside works by Native with essentialized race.” In Flight, Sherman American, First Nations, Australian, and New – TABLE OF CONTENTS – See page 8 Alexie’s adolescent protagonist, Zits, experiences Zealander authors, among others. Intriguing racial fluidity when inhabiting white and Indigenous questions arise in embarking on such an endeavor: INTERNATIONAL bodies in the past and present United States, yet What kind of dialogic emerges when placing VIRGINIA WOOLF his male gender identity never changes, even Woolf’s writings alongside those of Indigenous SOCIETY COLUMN developing into a harmful hyper-masculinity. writers? How does colonialism continue to have See page 52 Alexie’s novel, Sprouse writes, “seems to undo the an impact across the globe today? How might fixedness of race even as it reweaves gendered and Indigenous literatures enhance interpretations of IVWS OFFICERS AND sexual identities.” She reads these novels together to Woolf’s modernist, feminist, and pacifist poetics? MEMBERS-AT-LARGE “weave and unweave[...] concepts of identity” and How might such comparisons affect or inform See page 51 explore “the ways race interweaves with sexuality, understandings of subjectivity in women’s lives strung on a loom of history.” and literature, and the interconnections between EVENTS AND CFPS: narrative innovation and socio-political activism? IVWS panel “‘where did she spring from?’: Miss La Trobe’s While I have been writing about Woolf and Native Colonial Connection” springs from Karina MLA Chicago 2019 American women writers for several years due to Jakubowicz’s archival sleuthing in which she the many strong resonances among their writings, I see page 3 locates a possible source for the character of Miss had come across few others engaged in similar work 29th Annual Conference on La Trobe in Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts. and was curious as to what this call for papers might Virginia Woolf While several theories about the character’s origins 1 elicit. see page 3 have been proposed over the years, Jakubowicz argues that “Charles La Trobe (1801-1875), an Similar to studies of Woolf and African-American Louisville Conference Panel 2018 Australian governor and travel writer,” may be 2 women writers, bringing together Woolf and CFP for Louisville Conference the most likely source. For one, La Trobe knew Indigenous literatures forges deeper understandings 2019 Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephen, and “both men were of the diversity of human experience, traces literary See page 3 founding members of the Alpine Club.” For another, practices across space and time, and helps eradicate CFP for the IVWS Fourth Annual La Trobe published popular travelogues. Above all, the boundaries often imposed upon literary studies: Jakubowicz explains, La Trobe moved to Sussex 3 Undergraduate Angelica Garnett the “West” versus the “Rest.” The essays gathered in 1875, six miles from Rodmell, and was buried Essay Prize here yield fresh insights into the intersections in the local church cemetery. His “headstone is one of race, class, gender, and nation in literature See page 9 of the most prominent in the graveyard” and bears by both women and men and help establish not About the Virginia Woolf the unusual spelling of his name—the same name only a burgeoning field of Woolf studies but also Miscellany in Woolf’s novel: La Trobe. I will refrain from contribute to feminist, ecocritical, and indigenous See page 5 for Editorial Policies divulging any more of Jakubowicz’s findings and literary studies overall. It is tempting to add will let you, dear readers, follow her fascinating “postcolonial studies” to that list, but as several UPCOMING ISSUES, trail for yourselves. of the following papers attest, Indigenous peoples SPECIAL TOPICS & CFPS continue to suffer—and resist—the brutalities of Collecting Virginia Woolf In “Woolf and Zitkala-Ša: Subjectivity and colonialism. Guest Editor: Catherine Hollis Nationalism,” Amy Foley finds important [email protected] commonalities and differences in the works of In “Weaving Tapestries of Sexuality and Race in Submisisons due Woolf and her Indigenous female contemporary, Woolf’s Orlando and Alexie’s Flight,” Michelle 30 September 2018 Yankton-Sioux writer and activist Zitkala- Ša. Sprouse explores novels whose main character Both Woolf and Zitkala-Ša strive in their writings inhabits different bodies while journeying or Reading, Fast And Slow: to enable the marginalized, such as women and time-traveling across the centuries. Sprouse finds Centennial Musings Native Americans, to establish a voice, reflecting that while Orlando’s gender fluidity challenges on The Early Novels on how such peoples might join—or not—in gender binaries over the course of three hundred- Guest Editor: Rebecca Duncan their respective country’s policies and programs. [email protected] 1 Zitkala- Ša’s “encouragement of tribal participation See Justine Dymond, Fabienne C. Quennet, and my own Submissions due articles on Woolf and Native American women writers. in American economy, military, social life, and 1 May 2019 contemporaneous assimilative movements can be 2 See McVicker, Fernald, Barrett, Courington, and For detailed CFPs for Issues #95 and 96 understood,” Foley writes, “as a genuine embrace McMillan, for instance. see page 7 3 of American thinking and also as the surest way Chinweizu uses the phrase in his 1975 work, The West for American Indians at the time to preserve their and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers, and Please contact Vara Neverow for any queries identities within tribal life.” Conversely, “Woolf the African Elite. Since then, the phrase has come into [email protected] common parlance. adamantly opposes all nationalisms as contributors 1 to imperialism and fascism; she proposes how we are made subject by Silko’s Ceremony.” Woolf Studies Annual 21 (2015): 50-77. our participation in war and nationalism.” Foley cites today’s Dakota —. “‘Strong Women Make Strong Nations’: Women, Literature, and Access Pipeline controversy as a touchstone for her discussion of Woolf, Sovereignty in Paula Gunn Allen and Virginia Woolf.” Journal of Zitkala-Ša, and effective means of achieving sovereignty. Feminist Scholarship (2016): 62-83. Web. —. “Two Spirits and Gender Variance in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Vara Neverow explores Leonard Woolf’s first novel, The Village in the and Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Jungle, in which Woolf, a self-described anti-imperialist, draws upon Horse.” Virginia Woolf: Twenty-First-Century Approaches. Ed. his experiences as a British civil servant in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Jeanne Dubino, et al. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2014. 205-22. to depict the lives of the rural Sinhalese. In “The Politics of Animals Dymond, Justine. “Modernism(s) Inside Out: History, Space, and in the Forest: Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle,” Neverow Modern American Subjectivity in Cogewea, the Half-Blood.” specifically analyzes “the intricate connections Woolf depicts between Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Ed. Laura Doyle and among the human and non-human animals in the setting of the ever- and Laura Winkiel. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005. 297-312. present, ever-encroaching forest.” After tracing the novel’s complex Fernald, Anne. “A Room, A Child, A Mind of One’s Own: Virginia critical reception over the years among Sri Lankan and English readers, Woolf, Alice Walker, and Feminist Personal Criticism.” Hussey and Neverow explains how its main character, Silindu, obtains greater Neverow 245-51. depth as a character upon telling his young twin daughters a story of Hussey, Mark and Vara Neverow, eds. Virginia Woolf: Emerging animal-human understanding and reciprocity amid the “realities of life Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third Annual Conference on and death” in the jungle. Silindu’s animal-like characteristics render Virginia Woolf. New York: Pace UP, 1994. him an outcast among the villagers, and his daughters’ own profound McMillan, Laurie. “Telling a Critical Story: Alice Walker’s ‘In Search of connections with the animal world end unhappily as well. Yet, Neverow Our Mothers’ Gardens.’” Journal of Modern Literature 28.1 (2004): writes, “These interactions between human and non-human animals 107-23. provide a profound—indeed mystical—connection with other species McVicker, Jeannette. “Modernism, Power, and the Elite: Teaching Woolf that are meaningful and complete in ways that interactions with other and Hurston Together.” Re: Reading, Re: Writing, Re: Teaching humans are not.” Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. New My own essay, “Violence Against Women and the Land in Woolf’s York: Pace UP, 1995. 279-85. Between the Acts and Erdrich’s The Round House,” adapts tenets of Quennet, Fabienne C. Where “Indians” Fear to Tread?: A Postmodern ecofeminism to “reveal how hegemonic concepts of land use and Reading of Louise Erdrich’s North Dakota Quartet. Hamburg: LIT ownership engender the violation of women.” Between the Acts threads Verlag, 2001. together scenes of brutality against women and the land, most notably in Isa Oliver’s reading in the Times of a teenaged girl’s gang-rape by English soldiers and her husband Giles’s senseless stomping to death of two animals in distress. At the same time, the novel affirms animal life as deeply entwined with human beings and the stream of English X history portrayed in the pageant being performed on the grounds of the village manor house.