Figuring The Woman Author In Contemporary Fiction
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Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction
Author | : M. Eagleton |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230502215 |
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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.
The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Author | : K. Cooper,E. Short |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781137283382 |
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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.
Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Author | : Ellen McWilliams |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137314208 |
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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.
Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature
Author | : Ana María Sánchez-Arce |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136758003 |
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This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of the role of the author in the interpretation of literary texts, the ways in which writers bypass or embrace identity politics and the function of identity and the body in form. Essays tackle these issues from a number of positions, including identity categories such as (dis)ability, gender, race and sexuality, as well as questioning these categories themselves. Essayists look at both identity as form and form as identity. Although identity and form are both staples of current research on contemporary literature, they rarely meet in the way this collection allows. Authors studied include Beryl Bainbridge, Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, Brigid Brophy, Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, William Faulkner, Mark Haddon, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, B.S. Johnson, A.L. Kennedy, Toby Litt, Hilary Mantel, Andrea Levy, Robert Lowell, Ian McEwan, Flannery O’Connor, Alice Oswald, Sylvia Plath, Jeremy Reed, Anne Sexton, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, Jeremy Reed, Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf. The book engages with key theoretical approaches to twentieth- and twenty-first century literature of the last twenty years while at the same time advancing new frameworks that enable readers to reconsider the identity and form conundrum. In both its choice of texts and diverse approaches, it will be of interest to those working on English and American Literatures, gender studies, queer studies, disability studies, postcolonial literature, and literature and philosophy.
What We Owe
Author | : Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde |
Publsiher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781328995087 |
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A compressed, visceral novel about exile, dislocation, and the emotional minefields between mothers and daughters.
Contemporary Women Writers Look Back
Author | : Alice Ridout |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441168658 |
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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.
Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory
Author | : M. Greaney |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2006-08-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780230208070 |
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This topical study examines the 'novelizations' of radical literary theory in the work of A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Richard Powers and many other leading novelists. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the 'post-theoretical novel', and traces an alternative history of the 'theory revolution' in recent literary fiction.
Contemporary Women s Post Apocalyptic Fiction
Author | : Susan Watkins |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2020-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137486509 |
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This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.