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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783872403321

Autore

Lauret Maria

Titolo

Liberating literature : feminist fiction in America / / Maria Lauret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-92095-4

1-134-92096-2

1-280-32427-9

0-203-20835-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

813.009352042

813/.5099287

Soggetti

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Political fiction, American - History and criticism

Sex role in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; LIBERATING LITERATURE: Feminist Fiction in America; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: American women's writing and social movements from the 1930's to the 1980's; 1 'THIS STORY MUST BE TOLD': Women writers of the 1930's; 2 THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION; 3 LIBERATING LITERATURE; 4 'IF WE RESTRUCTURE THE SENTENCE OUR LIVES ARE MAKING': Feminist fictions of subjectivity; 5 HEALING THE BODY POLITIC: Alice Walker's Meridian; 6 SEIZING TIME AND MAKING NEW: Marge Piercy's  Vida; 7 'CONTEXT IS ALL': Backlash fictions of the 1980's

CONCLUSION: The future of feminist fiction, or, is there a feminist aesthetic?NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that.



Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960's; socialist women's writing of the 1930's; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices. Lauret's historicisation of feminist political writing allows for a new definition of the genre, and enables her to illuminate the profound influence and importance of African-American women