The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading

Langue : anglais

Edité par University of Illinois Press, 2002

0252027329 / 9780252027321

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Cloth hardcover, x + 222 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear only. Book is clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bright untorn dust jacket shows light creasing and a few scratches. -- This work is a hybrid exploration of literary theory, autobiography, and reader response, interweaving personal narratives with critical analyses of spatial metaphors in women's literature. Minrose C. Gwin posits space not as a static container but as a dynamic "swirl of social relations and productions" that intersects with narrative and gender, profoundly shaping the reader's experience. Through close readings of texts by Joy Harjo, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and others, Gwin illustrates how female characters navigate constricted, transformative, and often oppressive spaces - physical, cultural, and psychological. The "woman in the red dress" from Harjo's poem serves as a catalytic image: a figure whose presence disrupts and reconfigures the spaces around her, mirroring the disruptive power of literature on readers' perceptions of identity, history, and culture. Gwin's central argument - that reading is an immersive, often perilous "space travel" - underscores the emotional captivity of the reader, who, like the characters, must inhabit alien landscapes of trauma, resistance, and survival. Autobiographical interludes anchor the theoretical discussions, particularly in confronting themes like incest, patriarchal power, and racialized gender identities. By fusing critical theory with lived experience, Gwin reclaims space as a palimpsestic, mobile construct, challenging Bergsonian hierarchies that privileged time over space. The book's strength lies in democratizing literary engagement: texts become sites of traversal, where meaning is co-created by reader and narrative. Ultimately, The Woman in the Red Dress is less about the titular figure and more about how stories reterritorialize our understanding of self, gender, and cultural belonging.…

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Titre
The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading
Auteur
Minrose C. Gwin
Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Année de publication
2002
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0252027329
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780252027321
Édition
1st Edition

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