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Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit
by Gillian Whitlock.
Chicago, 216 pp., £10.50, February 2008,978 0 226 89526 0 Show More
by Gillian Whitlock.
Chicago, 216 pp., £10.50, February 2008,
“... Can all this really be about clothing? Yes and no. Certainly you shouldn’t overlook what Gillian Whitlock, in Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit, calls the paratext: the liminal features that surround the text, not just the book’s jacket and typeface but interviews with the author, reviews and commentaries. It is in transit, as ... ”
