Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation - Couverture rigide

 
9780807818602: Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0807818607 ISBN 13 : 9780807818602
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1989

Synopsis

Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of ""arms and the man.""

The volume shows how the gendered conception of war has both shaped literary texts and formed the literary canon. It identifies and interrogates the conventional war text, with its culturally determined split between warlike men and peaceful women, and it confirms that women's role in relation to war is much more complex and complicitous than such essentializing suggests. The contributors examine a wide range of familiar texts from fresh perspectives and bring new texts to light. Collectively, these essays range in time from the Trojan War to the nuclear age.

The contributors are June Jordan, Lorraine Helms, Patricia Francis Cholakian, Jane E. Schultz, Margaret R. Higonnet, James Longenbach, Laura Stempel Mumford, Sharon O'Brien, Jane Marcus, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Susan Schweik, Carol J. Adams, Esther Fuchs, Barbara Freeman, Gillian Brown, Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier.

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À propos de l?auteur

Helen M. Cooper is author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Woman and Artist.

Adrienne Auslander Munich is author of Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art and coeditor of Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays.

Susan Merrill Squier is author of Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City and editor of Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807818607
ISBN 13 
9780807818602
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
370
Éditeur
Cooper Helen M., Munich Adrienne Auslander, Squier Susan Merrill
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  0807842567 ISBN 13 :  9780807842560
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 1989
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