| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) |
| Contents |
1. 'This story must be told' : women writers of the 1930s -- 2. The politics of women's liberation -- 3. Liberating literature -- 4. 'If we restructure the sentence our lives are making' : feminist fictions of subjectivity -- 5. Healing the body politic : Alice Walker's Meridian -- 6. Seizing time and making new : Marge Piercy's Vida -- 7. 'Context is all' : backlash fictions of the 1980s |
| Summary |
Annotation Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices. Lauret's historicisation of feminist political writing allows for a new definition of the genre, and enables her to illuminate the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing. Well-grounded historically and theoretically, Liberating Literature speaks about and to a political and cultural tradition, and offers stunning new readings of both familiar and neglected novels within the feminist canon. Reader and students of feminist fiction cannot afford to be without this major new work |
| Analysis |
English fiction By Women |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Political fiction, American -- History and criticism
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Feminist fiction -- History and criticism
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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American fiction -- Women authors
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Feminism and literature
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Feminist fiction
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Political fiction, American
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Sex role in literature
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Women and literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203208358 |
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9780203208359 |
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9780415065160 |
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041506516X |
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9780415065153 |
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0415065151 |
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9786610324279 |
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6610324271 |
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