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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787603003321

Titolo

Herspace : women, writing, and solitude / / Jo Malin, Victoria Boynton, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-315-78594-3

1-317-71902-6

1-317-71903-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

HAWORTH Innovations in Feminist Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyntonVictoria

MalinJo <1942->

Disciplina

810.9/9287

Soggetti

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries

Women and literature - English-speaking countries

Authorship - Sex differences

Personal space in literature

Solitude in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2003 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Herspace Women, Writing, and Solitude; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Women Theorizing Herpace-Solite and Writing; 1. Women Alone: The Spinster's Art; 2. With Sure and Uncertain Footing: Negotiating the Terrain of a Solitude in May Sarton's Journals; 3. Unknown Women: Secular Solitude in the Works of Alice Koller and May Sarton; 4. A Veritable Guest to Her Own Self; 5. Woolf, Hurston, and the House of Self; 6. The Domestic Politics of Marguerite Duras

Section II: Women's Writting Spaces-Solitude and the Creative Process7. Writing Women, Solitary Space, and the Ideology of Domesticity; 8. Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing; 9. Between the Study and the Living Room: Writing Alone and with Others; Section III: Women Writing Herpace-Personal Takes on Home; 10. What to Make of Missing



Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction); 11. The Little Gray House and Me; 12. The Colors and the Light; 13. A Woman's Place; 14. Reframing My Life; 15. An &/or Peace Performance; Afterword

Sommario/riassunto

This collection delves deeply into the power of solitude in a richly detailed exploration of the lives of women writers!  The essays in this fascinating volume combine literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism, while opening minds and expanding concepts of women's roles both in the home and within academia along the way. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude begins with a discussion of the importance of solitude to the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to an