Of Cities and Women
(Letters to Fawwaz)
By Etel Adnan
Asked to contribute a study on feminism, Etel Adnan decides to adopt the free and adventurous approach of letters to investigate cities (Barcelona, Amsterdam,Berlin, Aix-en-Provence, Beirut...) and their relations with women's lives as well as with the idea of woman. But where Paris, When it's Naked delves into the accumulated layers of the self, Of Cities & Women is more concerned with the nature of race itself, its definition and redefinition, through philosophical speculation, observations on the relations between artists and their ostensible subjects, between women and cities, between women and men.
...An exquisite sensibility (a cross between the mysticism of such great medievals as Rabia and Hildegaard of Bingen and the American lucidity of Emily Dickinson or Lorinne Niedecker) generously infuses Adnan's evocative prose.>
—Ammiel Alcalay, The Nation
...a provocative combination of meditation, mediation, and immediacy that has so distinguished her internationally acclaimed writing.
—Barbara Harlow, Univ. of Texas at Austin
1993 85 pages $15.00 ISBN: 0-942996-21-6
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