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Contemporary Women Writers Look Back

Author : Alice Ridout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441168656
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women Writers Look Back written by Alice Ridout and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late 20th-century fiction was 'The Literature of Exhaustion,' authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was, however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the 21st century. It analyses how contemporary women writers deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and postcolonialism.

Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing

Author : Jane Eldridge Miller
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415159814
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing written by Jane Eldridge Miller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries profile women writers of poetry, fiction, prose, and drama, including Sylvia Plath, Fleur Adcock, and Toni Morrison.

Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031280938
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing by : Gina Wisker

Download or read book Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing written by Gina Wisker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

Author : Lauren Fournier
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262362589
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism written by Lauren Fournier and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, applying it to other disciplines and practices. Fournier provides a long-awaited account of autotheory, situating it as a mode of contemporary, post-1960s artistic practice that is indebted to feminist writing, art, and activism. Investigating a series of works by writers and artists including Chris Kraus and Adrian Piper, she considers the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of autotheory.

Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing

Author : Jane Eldridge Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136214305
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing written by Jane Eldridge Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.

The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present

Author : Mary Eagleton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294817
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1970-Present written by Mary Eagleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the most active and vibrant period in the history of British women's writing. Examining changes and continuities in fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, as well as women's engagement with a range of literary and popular genres, the essays in this volume highlight the range and diversity of women's writing since 1970.

O Fallen Angel

Author : Kate Zambreno
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062572695
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book O Fallen Angel written by Kate Zambreno and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map, O Fallen Angel, is a provocative, voice-driven story of a family in crisis—and, more broadly, the crisis of the American family—now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch. Inspired by Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Kate Zambreno's brilliant novel is a triptych of modern-day America set in a banal Midwestern landscape, told from three distinct, unforgettable points of view. There is "Mommy," a portrait of housewife psychosis, fenced in by her own small mind. There is "Maggie," Mommy's unfortunate daughter whom she infects with fairytales. Then there is the mysterious martyr-figure Malachi, a Cassandra in army fatigues, the Septimus Smith to Mommy's Mrs. Dalloway, who stands at the foot of the highway holding signs of fervent prophecy, gaping at the bottomless abyss of the human condition, while SUVs scream past. Deeply poignant, sometimes hilarious, and other times horrifying, O Fallen Angel is satire at its best.

Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Author : Sarah Sceats
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139426613
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction written by Sarah Sceats and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.

The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women

Author : Wendy Martin
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women written by Wendy Martin and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two generations ago, most essayists were men, but in recent decades, women writers have claimed the personal essay, using its freedom to explore contemporary life in all its diversity. Wendy Martin has gathered a wide range of writing, from classics by Maya Angelou and Joan Didion to new voices of younger writers, many appearing here for the first time in book form.

China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century

Author : Jie Lu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131796974X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century written by Jie Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this period perhaps can be understood most productively as a response to a global modernity that has touched and transformed all aspects of contemporary Chinese reality. The eleven essays in this book offer an introduction to some of the most important works published at the turn of the twenty-first century. In combining textual analysis of specific works with theoretical insights, and in locating the texts in their sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts, the essays explore key theoretical issues and intellectual concerns of the time. They collectively draw a broad contour of new developments, major trends, and radical changes, capturing the intellectual and cultural Zeitgeist of the age. All in all, these essays offer new theoretical approaches to, and critical perspectives on, contemporary Chinese literature and culture.

Writing Women in Modern China

Author : Amy D. Dooling
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107013
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women in Modern China written by Amy D. Dooling and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few years have seen a burgeoning effort to rethink questions of women, writing, and gender in modern China. Here 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. 18 illustrations.

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Author : Joanna Russ
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292724457
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book How to Suppress Women's Writing written by Joanna Russ and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1983-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

There Are Two Sexes

Author : Antoinette Fouque
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538383
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book There Are Two Sexes written by Antoinette Fouque and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and spearheaded its celebrated Psychanalyse et Politique, a research group that informed the cultural and intellectual heart of French feminism. Rather than reject Freud's discoveries on the pretext of their phallocentrism, Fouque sought to enrich his thought by more clearly defining the difference between the sexes and affirming the existence of a female libido. By recognizing women's contribution to humanity, Fouque hoped "uterus envy," which she saw as the mainspring of misogyny, could finally give way to gratitude and by associating procreation with women's liberation she advanced the goal of a parity-based society in which men and women could write a new human contract. The essays, lectures, and dialogues in this volume finally allow English-speaking readers to access the breadth of Fouque's creativity and activism. Touching on issues in history and biography, politics and psychoanalysis, Fouque recounts her experiences running the first women's publishing house in Europe; supporting women under threat, such as Aung San Suu Kyi, Taslima Nasrin, and Nawal El Saadaoui; and serving as deputy in the European Parliament. Her theoretical explorations discuss the ongoing development of feminology, a field she initiated, and, while she celebrates the progress women have made over the past four decades, she also warns against the trends of counterliberation: the feminization of poverty, the persistence of sexual violence, and the rise of religious fundamentalism.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521858887
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature written by Angelyn Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

Author : Radha Chakravarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317809963
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers written by Radha Chakravarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing

Author : Fiona Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192524453
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing written by Fiona Cox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of prominent female authors, from Ali Smith, Marina Warner, and Marie Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stãnescu, and Yoko Tawada. Using Ovid in their engagements with a wide range of issues besetting our twenty-first century world - homelessness, refugees, the financial crisis, internet porn, anorexia, body image - these writers echo the poet's preoccupation in his own work with fleeting fame, shape-shifting, and the dangers of immediate gratification, and make evident that these concerns are not only quintessentially modern, but also peculiarly Ovidian. Moving beyond the concern of second-wave feminism with recovering silenced female voices and establishing a female perspective within canonical works, the volume places particular emphasis on the intersections between Ovid's imaginative universe and the political and aesthetic agenda of third-wave feminism. Focusing on its subjects' socially and politically charged re-shapings, re-imaginings, and receptions of Ovid, it not only demonstrates the extraordinary plasticity of his writing, but also of its myriad re-castings and re-contextualizations within contemporary culture (in terms of genre alone, the works discussed included translations, poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and memoirs). In so doing, it not only offers us a valuable perspective on the work of the selected female authors and a new and vital landmark in the history of Ovidian reception, but also reveals to us an Ovid who remains our contemporary and an enduring source of inspiration.

Women's Work

Author : Eva Salzman
Publisher : Seren Books
ISBN 13 : 9781854114310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Women's Work written by Eva Salzman and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inclusiveselection of women s poetry in English that features writers from 1900 through the present, thiscollection reflectsaspects of women s lives, such as work, childhood, God, and lust. Classic poems from Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath complement those from recent prize-winnersAlice Oswald, Deryn Rees-Jones, and Carol Ann Duffy. Showcasing the range, craft, intelligence, and skill of women s poetry, this compilation contains authors from Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States."