Language, Gender, and Power in “Witches” – Chicago Review of Books

Language, Gender, and Power in “Witches” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Brenda Lozano’s Witches, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, tells the story of the lives of two Mexican women: Feliciana, an aging curandera, or folk healer, living in a small rural village in Oaxaca who has gained an international reputation, and Zoe, a young journalist from Mexico City. Zoe is dispatched to interview … Read more

Revisiting “The Witches of Eastwick” 330 Years After Salem – Chicago Review of Books

Revisiting “The Witches of Eastwick” 330 Years After Salem – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Around the time that Donald Trump was elected president in late 2016, a phrase began circulating periodically on my social media feeds: “We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn.” This pithy rejoinder to patriarchal overreach was taken from a 2015 Tish Thawer novel but has since taken on a life of … Read more