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Author: Betsy Warland. Title: Oscar of Between. Format: Paperback. Country/Region of Manufacture: CA. Item Length: 140mm. Item Height: 205mm. ISBN-10: 198791516X. Language: English.

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In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its source: she had never learned the art of camouflage. This marked the beginning of this book. Taking the name Oscar, she embarks on an intimate, nine-year quest by telling her story as a person of between. As Oscar, she is able to make sense of her self and the culture that shaped her. She traces this experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest, through to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life. In 1984, she and her lover wrote lesbian erotic love poetry collections in dialogue with one ather, the first and only tandem collections on this subject in English Canada. After the two split, she experienced years of unackwledged exclusion from a community in which she thought she belonged. In the process of writing Oscar's story, Warland considers our culture's rigid, even violent demarcations as she becomes at ease with never kwing what gender she will be addressed as: In Oscar's daily life, when encountering someone, it goes like this: some address her as a male; some address her as a female; some begin with one and then switch (sometimes apologetically) to the other; some identify Oscar as lesbian and their faces harden, or open into a momentary glance of arousal; some kw they don't kw and openly scrutinise; some decide female but stare perplexedly at her w-sans-breast chest; some are bemused by or drawn to or relate to her androgyny; and for some ne of this matters. A contemporary Orlando, this book extends beyond the author's personal narrative, pushing the boundaries of form, and by doing so, invents new ways to see ourselves.

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Caitlin Press
ISBN-10
198791516x
ISBN-13
9781987915167
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Betsy Warland
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Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: General

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Place of Publication
Saint George
Author Biography
Betsy Warland has published 12 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose including her best-selling 2010 book of essays on writing, Breathing the PageReading the Act of Writing. In 2013, Warland created a new publishing template: an interactive salon that features excerpts from her manuscript Oscar of Between, Guest Writers and artists work and lively comments from salon readers. In March of 2016, Oscar of BetweenA Memoir of Identity and Ideas launches Caitlin Press new imprint, Dagger Editions. Warland has been teaching creative writing workshops and courses for the past 35 years. She initiated and coordinated Women and Wordsles femmes et le mots conference (Vancouver 1983) of 1,000 women from across Canada involved in all aspects of contemporary literature. Warland co-founded the national Creative Writer nonfiction Collective in 2004. Designer and director of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser from 2001-2012 and TWS Mentor in 2001-2003, 2005, she remains on TWS teaching faculty. While on the National Council of The Writers Union of Canada, Warland chaired The Writers Union AGM in Vancouver in 2012. In 2007, she founded the six-month Vancouver Manuscript Intensive program she is the director of and a mentor in. A professional manuscript consultant/editor for the past 25 years, Warland works with writers from across Canada.
Date of Publication
01/03/2016
Country of Publication
Canada

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