#womens-literature

#womens-literature

Marsha eventually brought her salon to campus and founded the Comparative Literature Women's Caucus, an activist collective that established the first women's literature classes in Comparative Literature, conceived and taught by graduate student women. Caucus members helped produce the first major translation anthologies of women's world-wide poetry, encouraged women to write feminist dissertations on women authors, and researched discrimination against women in the department.

Speaking from her book-lined New York apartment, Goldstein tells me that she chose to translate There's No Turning Back because of its intensity. It's the sort of novel, she says, like Forbidden Notebook (the first De Céspedes' novel Goldstein translated) that pulls you in immediately. Indeed, from its first line, There's No Turning Back propels the reader into the midst of daily life at the Grimaldi pensione-convent: 'As the nun read the last words of the evening prayer, an indolent chorus of girls responded: "Amen"'.