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An Orgasm and an Atom: Performing Passion and Freedom: In Margaret Sweatman's When Alice Lay Down With Peter - Couverture souple

Kunz, Brenda

 
9783639165579: An Orgasm and an Atom: Performing Passion and Freedom: In Margaret Sweatman's When Alice Lay Down With Peter
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639165578 ISBN 13 : 9783639165579
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Margaret Sweatman¿s novel, When Alice Lay Down With Peter, plays with the British Empire¿s adventure story and its creation of manhood. Mimicking this creative process in the Canadian Northwest, Sweatman conceives and births a woman¿s previously erased passion back into the adventure story in a playful, erotic and politically-charged presentation of the performing female body as its own 'big bang'. Since a woman¿s contingency and agency within the Empire¿s gender performative has been vigorously debated by postmodern and cultural theorists, Sweatman chooses to birth her characters into a world of/as performance. Sweatman arms the McCormack women with performance strategies and frees them to explore passion beyond Imperial and textual constraints. Four generations of McCormack women mimic, mock, and sidewind their way into, around, and beyond the Empire¿s warring narrative and its heterosexual imperative. They are savvy, sexy, and provocative, playing simultaneously as shameless voyeurs, plagiarists, and war artists.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Margaret Sweatman¿s novel, When Alice Lay Down With Peter, plays with the British Empire¿s adventure story and its creation of manhood. Mimicking this creative process in the Canadian Northwest, Sweatman conceives and births a woman¿s previously erased passion back into the adventure story in a playful, erotic and politically-charged presentation of the performing female body as its own 'big bang'. Since a woman¿s contingency and agency within the Empire¿s gender performative has been vigorously debated by postmodern and cultural theorists, Sweatman chooses to birth her characters into a world of/as performance. Sweatman arms the McCormack women with performance strategies and frees them to explore passion beyond Imperial and textual constraints. Four generations of McCormack women mimic, mock, and sidewind their way into, around, and beyond the Empire¿s warring narrative and its heterosexual imperative. They are savvy, sexy, and provocative, playing simultaneously as shameless voyeurs, plagiarists, and war artists.

Biographie de l'auteur

Brenda Kunz, MA English University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: A farmer, a teacher and a mother. She resides in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she and her husband, Gary, raised their three children, Sarah, Megan and Michael and where they still farm.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639165578
ISBN 13 
9783639165579
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
88
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Personne responsable
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