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Author | : M. Eagleton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230502210 |
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If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field; looking for control but subject to duplicity; seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Michèle Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.
Author | : K. Cooper |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137283386 |
Download The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
Author | : Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1328995089 |
Download What We Owe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A compressed, visceral novel about exile, dislocation, and the emotional minefields between mothers and daughters.
Author | : A. Graham-Bertolini |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230339301 |
Download Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
Author | : Laurie Champion |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2002-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 031307643X |
Download Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American women writers have long been creating an extraordinarily diverse and vital body of fiction, particularly in the decades since World War II. Recent authors have benefited from the struggles of their predecessors, who broke through barriers that denied women opportunities for self-expression. This reference highlights American women writers who continue to build upon the formerly male-dominated canon. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 60 American women writers of diverse ethnicity who wrote or published their most significant fiction after World War II. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes:^L^DBLA brief biography^L^DBLA discussion of major works and themes^^DBLA survey of the writer's critical reception^L^DBLA bibliography of primary and secondary sources
Author | : Ellen McWilliams |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137314206 |
Download Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines how contemporary Irish authors have taken up the history of the Irish woman migrant. It situates these writers' work in relation to larger discourses of exile in the Irish literary tradition and examines how they engage with the complex history of Irish emigration.
Author | : Heidi Pitlor |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1643751441 |
Download Impersonation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Lana Breban is a powerhouse lawyer, economist, and advocate for women’s rights. With aspirations of running for office, Lana and her staff have decided she needs help softening her public image. That’s when Allie is hired to write Lana’s memoir about her life as a mother. Allie believes she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can. But soon Allie’s childcare arrangements unravel; she falls behind on her rent; her subject, Lana, is frustratingly aloof; and Allie’s boyfriend decides to go on a road trip toward self-discovery. As a writer for hire and a mother, Allie has gotten too used to being accommodating. At what point will she speak up for all that she deserves? Impersonation tells a timely, insightful, and bitingly funny story of ambition, motherhood, and class.
Author | : Jennifer Leetsch |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-07-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030677540 |
Download Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.
Author | : S. Cobb |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2014-11-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137315873 |
Download Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. The figure of the woman author comes to the fore as a key site for the representation of women's agency and the authority of the woman filmmaker.
Author | : Susan Sellers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350317632 |
Download Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Woman as gorgon, woman as temptress: the classical and biblical mythology which has dominated Western thinking defines women in a variety of patriarchally encoded roles. This study addresses the surprising persistence of mythical influence in contemporary fiction. Opening with the question 'what is myth?', the first section provides a wide-ranging review of mythography. It traces how myths have been perceived and interpreted by such commentators as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, Roland Barthes, Jack Zipes and Marina Warner. This leads to an examination of the role that mythic narrative plays in social and self formation, drawing on the literary, feminist and psychoanalytic theories of Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous and Judith Butler to delineate the ways in which women's mythos can transcend the limitations of logos and give rise to potent new models for individual and cultural regeneration. In this light, Susan Sellers offers challenging new readings of a wide range of contemporary women's fiction, including works by A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Anne Rice, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant and Fay Weldon. Topics explored include fairy tale as erotic fiction, new religious writing, vampires and gender-bending, mythic mothers, genre fiction, the still-persuasive paradigm of feminine beauty, and the radical potential of comedy.