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Women's Movement: Escape As Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction. Costerus Ns 128 - Couverture souple

Slettedahl, Macpherso

 
9789042013629: Women's Movement: Escape As Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction. Costerus Ns 128
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ISBN 10 : 9042013621 ISBN 13 : 9789042013629
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2000

Synopsis

Women's Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambiguous escape - the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, and Women's Movement argues that these narrative closures reflect the changing face of feminism, as it sheds its old certainties, is faced with a monumental "backlash" and is refigured as the potentially less threatening "postfeminism".
Resisting the automatic association of "escape" with "escapist," Women's Movement analyzes male adventure and quest narratives, including Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blood Meridian, and Deliverance, before turning to a range of feminist texts. While being the first book to give critical attention to some postfeminist novels, Women's Movement more often acts as a channel for offering different ways of approaching familiar feminist texts, including, among others, Marian Engel's Bear, Atwood's Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale, Joan Barfoot's Gaining Ground and Dancing in the Dark, Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions and Ladder of Years, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying and Margaret Laurence's The Diviners.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Womens Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambiguous escape the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, and Womens Movement argues that these narrative closures reflect the changing face of feminism, as it sheds its old certainties, is faced with a monumental backlash and is refigured as the potentially less threatening postfeminism. Resisting the automatic association of escape with escapist, Womens Movement analyzes male adventure and quest narratives, including Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blood Meridian, and Deliverance, before turning to a range of feminist texts. While being the first book to give critical attention to some postfeminist novels, Womens Movement more often acts as a channel for offering different ways of approaching familiar feminist texts, including, among others, Marian Engels Bear, Atwoods Surfacing and The Handmaids Tale, Joan Barfoots Gaining Ground and Dancing in the Dark, Anne Tylers Earthly Possessions and Ladder of Years, Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping, Erica Jongs Fear of Flying and Margaret Laurences The Diviners.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042013621
ISBN 13 
9789042013629
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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