{"product_id":"the-literary-workshop","title":"The Literary Workshop","description":"\u003cb\u003eRadical lesbian feminist theorist and author Monique Wittig theorizes writing as labor and demonstrates where literature’s political power comes from\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Literary Workshop \u003c\/i\u003etakes readers inside Monique Wittig’s creative process, unlocking the practice of writing both in material and political terms. Wittig provides her most com­plete account of how literature and politics work together. Part of the generation that revolutionized French literature, Wittig reveals the secret of her craft: that the work a writer does with language is itself a form of resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised in France, Monique Wittig (1935–2003) was a driving force in second-wave feminism and one of the most brilliant authors of her generation. A provocative thinker, she famously declared that lesbians are not women and in­troduced women into a materialist framework by treating them as a class. Wittig is the author of, among other titles, \u003ci\u003eThe Straight Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLes Guérillères\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lesbian Body\u003c\/i\u003e. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Opoponax\u003c\/i\u003e, won Le Prix Medicis.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487866495349,"sku":"9781804294451","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804294451.jpg?v=1786355088","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-literary-workshop","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}