Liberating the Canon: An interview with Isabel Waidner

Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist who has published two works of fiction with Manchester-based independent publisher Dostoyevsky Wannabe, edited an anthology of exploratory queer literature entitled Liberating the Canon, and who - with artist Richard Porter of Pilot Press (https://pilotpress.tumblr.com) - curates the Queers Read This series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. This week, new Suite (212) co-host Lara Alonso Corona asks Isabel about queer and working-class representation in 'experimental' writing, how useful such labels are, and what queer authors can take from a modernist canon that is largely white, male, cisgender, heterosexual and middle-class. SELECTED REFERENCES Works by Isabel Waidner Gaudy Bauble (2017) – https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/gaudy_bauble Liberating the Canon (editor, 2018) – https://www.dostoyevskywannabe.com/experiments/liberating_the_canon We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (2019) – https://www.dostoyevskywannabe.com/we_are_made_of_diamond_stuff/original Mojisola Adebayo - https://mojisolaadebayo.co.uk Sara Ahmed - https://www.saranahmed.com Samuel Beckett Dodie Bellamy - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-dodie-bellamy Jay Bernard - https://jaybernard.co.uk/home.html Dennis Cooper Robert Glück - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/06/new-narratives-origins-robert-gluck-documents-the-start-of-san-franciscos-new-narrative-scene B.S. JOHNSON, House Mother Normal (1971) - http://www.full-stop.net/2017/03/23/reviews/jc-sutcliffe/house-mother-normal-b-s-johnson/ James Joyce Franz Kafka Ann Quin - https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5298/rediscovering-britains-avant-garde Nisha Ramayya - http://www.nisharamayya.com Verity Spott - http://twotornhalves.blogspot.com Stranger Things (TV series) LINDA STUPART, Virus (2017) - https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/linda-stupart-interview Joanna Walsh – https://badaude.wixsite.com/joannawalsh