"In Transit" by Brigid Brophy
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Brigid Brophy
13 min read
The article focuses on her 1969 novel 'In Transit' and discusses her experimental style and place in literary history alongside Christine Brooke-Rose. Understanding Brophy's biography, her advocacy work, and her broader literary output provides essential context for appreciating why this novel matters.
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Christine Brooke-Rose
11 min read
The podcast explicitly pairs Brophy with Brooke-Rose when discussing literary history. Brooke-Rose was a pioneering experimental novelist and literary theorist whose avant-garde techniques parallel Brophy's, making her an illuminating comparison point.
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Dalkey Archive Press
12 min read
The podcast series is literally about 'Mining the Dalkey Archive' - understanding this influential independent publisher's history, its focus on experimental and avant-garde literature, and its role in keeping works like Brophy's in print provides crucial context for the entire series.
"In Transit" by Brigid Brophy
On this episode of this Irish Edition of the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast, Chad and Vince talk about Brigid Brophy’s 1969 masterpiece, In Transit, a novel that is trans-positive at its core. They talk about Joycean punning and experimental structures, Chad’s love of airports (weirdo), masculine vs. feminine writing, Brophy and Brooke-Rose and literary history, and much more.
The next book to be featured in this series is The Ikon Maker by Desmond Hogan.
This episode’s music is “In the Margins” by The Lemonheads.
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