“This beautiful and original book [...] captures the sounds of women’s emotions; the overflow of excess and the lapse into silence.” – Laura Mulvey
For the second event in Foyles’ OK Translator programme, Clara Schulmann and three of her translators – Lauren Elkin, Sophie Lewis and Naima Rashid – will be in conversation with Catherine Taylor about Chicanes, Schulmann’s study in the female voice.
Chicanes creates a portrait of female consciousness through a subtly crafted use of voice. Clara Schulmann is planning an essay and in the process gathers the voices of numerous female figures in the history of feminist writing and thought, and of other women she speaks to, from telephone conversations with friends to strangers on the street. These voices begin to shape the form and meaning of her essay in ways she did not expect. In a further fine-tuning of Clara Schulmann’s experiment in female voice, her work comes into English through the work of eight female translators.