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Mar 28Liked by Celine Nguyen

Hi Celine, there is an earlier translation of Kanai's earlier works, Indian Summer: A Novel. It was released in September 30, 2012. I think you'll like this novel too. It focuses on the interiority of womanhood, women, and their everyday lives.

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Minh, thank you for sharing! I somehow completely missed this 🥲 but am going to look for a copy of the novel now, as I'd love to read more of Kanai's writing!

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Dec 19, 2023Liked by Celine Nguyen

Celine! I recommend you read Rita Felski's essay 'The Invention of Everyday Life' from her book Doing Time. She gives a really nice definition of everydayness and problematises Lefebvre, Blanchot, de Certeau et al. a little.

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Dec 20, 2023·edited Dec 20, 2023Author

This is such a good recommendation—thank you! She's quoted a bit in The Everyday but it's nice to get her longer-form thoughts.

Really loved her reflections on the phenomenology of everyday life—and on habit (critically: as a vehicle for ideology and conservativism, but also reparatively: as a source of comfort and a carrier of important cultural rituals)

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"Film literature" -- we connect ... xo ~ Mary

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