The Red Word is a novel by Canadian writer Sarah Henstra, published in by ECW Press. An exploration of contemporary gender politics and rape culture, the novel centres on Karen Huls, a sophomore at university who moves in with a group of feminist activist roommates while simultaneously getting romantically involved with a member of "Gang Bang Central", a campus fraternity being Author: Sarah Henstra. · The Red Word captures beautifully the feverish binarism of campus politics and the headlong rush of youth toward new friends, lovers, and life-altering ideas. With strains of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot, Alison Lurie’s Truth and Consequences, and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, Sarah Henstra’s debut adult novel arrives on the wings of www.doorway.ru The Red Word. A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry--particularly at a fraternity called GBC/5.
The Red Word won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. How stereotypes about feminism drove novelist Sarah Henstra to write The Red Word The best Canadian fiction of "Sarah Henstra's The Red Word will get you fuming, laughing, cheering, and most of all, thinking."--Cosmopolitan. A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry--particularly at a fraternity called GBC. THE RED WORD. by Sarah Henstra ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma. An aesthetically arresting interrogation of rape culture on campus. Like many an epic tale, this is the story of a war between two great houses.
The Red Word captures beautifully the feverish binarism of campus politics and the headlong rush of youth toward new friends, lovers, and life-altering ideas. With strains of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot, Alison Lurie’s Truth and Consequences, and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, Sarah Henstra’s debut adult novel arrives on the wings of furies. Sarah Henstra is a professor of English at Ryerson University. She is the author of the young adult novel Mad Miss Mimic, which was published by Penguin Canada. The Red Word is her first work of adult fiction. She lives in Toronto. Emily Woo Zeller is an Audie and Earphones Award-winning narrator, voice-over artist, actor, dancer, and choreographer. In The Red Word, Sarah Henstra, a professor of English at Toronto’s Ryerson University and the author of the young-adult novel Mad Miss Mimic, explores the connections between 21st-century ideas of gender roles and rape culture on one hand, and myth on the other. She does so in arguably the most poignant setting of all: a college campus, the locus for both the promulgation and deconstruction of cultural mythology.
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