Re-writing the Script: Gender and Community in Elin Wagner - Couverture souple

Forsas-Scott, Helena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1870041755 ISBN 13 : 9781870041751

Editeur : Norvik Press, 2009

Synopsis

Feminist, suffragist, pacifist and environmentalist, Elin Wagner was the author of a prodigious amount of journalism, political pamphlets and prose fiction as well as an acclaimed biography of Selma Lagerlof. She belonged to the circle of women who founded the radical weekly "Tidevarvet" ("The Epoch") and the unique Women Citizens' College at Fogelstad. This is the first full-length study in English of Wagner's output, and also the first attempt to go beyond the literary histories with their emphasis on the novels and short stories and include texts representing a wide range of genres. The focus on constructions of gender and community, which are studied in relation to dominant discourses, shows a number of Wagner's texts to be more radical than has been observed previously. Some of Wagner's texts are found to have outlined bold alternatives to the Swedish welfare state, and the combination of gender and environmentalism in some of the late texts anticipated much more recent ecocritical works.

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À propos de l?auteur

Helena Forsas-Scott lectures on Scandinavian literature and culture, translation, and gender studies at University College London, and has published extensively on Scandinavian literature and gender. In this thought-provoking study she places Wagner's texts in the context of recent theory on gender and narrative.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Norvik Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1870041755
• ISBN 13: 9781870041751
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible