Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 218 pages)
ISBN:
9783031280931
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3031280938
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing
Content:
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 womens writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary womens 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 womens 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing Back and Looking Forward -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Haunting Relationships, Dark Visions, Personal Dangers and Encounters with Strangers in Gothic Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield (1920), Shirley Jackson (1946), Daphne du Maurier (1952), and Alice Munro (2012) -- Women's Gothic -- Freud, Existentialism and Phenomenology -- Katherine Mansfield (1921) -- Mansfield, Women's Gothic and Gothic Horror -- Influences-Mansfield and du Maurier -- Daphne du Maurier and Shirley Jackson, Gothic Horror -- Shirley Jackson
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Alice Munro -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Websites -- Chapter 3: (Dis)continuing the Mother-daughter Dyad in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? Working Back Through Our Mothers -- Introduction -- Are You My (Biological) Mother? -- Are You My (Literary) Mother? -- Are You My (Therapeutic) Mother? -- Transitional Objects and the Use of the Past -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: 'You'll be told lies about me, or perhaps even nothing at all.' Facts, Fictions, and Anachronism and Realism in Contemporary Women's Historical Novels -- Facts, Fictions, and the 'practical past'
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Deryn Lake, Suzannah Dunn, and the Historical Event -- Events, Anachronisms, and Back Again: Suzannah Dunn's Tudor Queens -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: A Feminist Genealogy: L'Écriture Féminine, The Youngest Doll, and Contemporary Puerto Rican Women Writers -- L'écriture Féminine -- When Women Love Men -- The Poisoned Story -- "At the Beginning of a New History": Zoé Jiménez Corretjer and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: The Smallest Room of One's Own: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in Close Quarters -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: "They are not only one
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They're two, and three, and four": Building a Trauma Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: 'Ageing and Care in Contemporary Women's Writing: Doris Lessing's The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby' -- Ageing, Care and Time -- The Diary of a Good Neighbour -- Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: (Re)Writing the Future/Disavowing the Past: Reading Feminism(s) in The Power and The Handmaid's Tale -- Generational Divides? -- Paradoxical Positioning -- Narrative (Re)Framing
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Materiality, the Body, the Gaze -- The Power of the Gaze -- (In)Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031280924
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Legacies and lifespans in contemporary women’s writing Cham, Switzerland : palgrave macmillan, 2023 ISBN 303128092X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031280924
Language:
English
