Bonnie Burstow, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/bonnieburstow/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:13:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 When Art Meets Politics: Is it Still Quality Fiction? https://booksbywomen.org/when-art-meets-politics-is-it-still-quality-fiction/ https://booksbywomen.org/when-art-meets-politics-is-it-still-quality-fiction/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2018 08:57:04 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=22025 Whence arises the question above? If you have spent time in mainstream literature classes, alas, you will know. While the bias against mixing art (or what elite folk think of as “real art”) with the political has greatly diminished over the past fifty years, especially in the world of activism, it has not disappeared. Again […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/when-art-meets-politics-is-it-still-quality-fiction/feed/ 1 22025 Combining First Person Narration with Viewpoint Characters: Why? How? Where? https://booksbywomen.org/combining-first-person-narration-with-viewpoint-characters-why-how-where-by-bonnie-burstow/ https://booksbywomen.org/combining-first-person-narration-with-viewpoint-characters-why-how-where-by-bonnie-burstow/#comments Sat, 25 Nov 2017 07:54:48 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20789   While once upon a time the use of the first person narrator in fiction was seen as “barbaric”, that time is long past. It is now a popular narrator voice, and it fits well with the feminist opposition to so called “objective” knowledge—something embodied in omniscient third person narrator. Moreover, we are all keenly […]

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