03646nam 2200745Ia 450 991082890380332120200520144314.01-134-92095-41-134-92096-21-280-32427-90-203-20835-810.4324/9780203208359 (CKB)1000000000251474(EBL)180075(OCoLC)277598877(SSID)ssj0000071104(PQKBManifestationID)11109858(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071104(PQKBWorkID)10090574(PQKB)10174249(MiAaPQ)EBC180075(Au-PeEL)EBL180075(CaPaEBR)ebr10058371(CaONFJC)MIL32427(OCoLC)51029036(EXLCZ)99100000000025147419931215d1994 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLiberating literature feminist fiction in America /Maria Lauret1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19941 online resource (254 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-06516-X 0-415-06515-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-233) and index.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'sCONCLUSION: The future of feminist fiction, or, is there a feminist aesthetic?NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXLiberating 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 womenAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPolitical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismSex role in literatureAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Political fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Sex role in literature.813.009352042813/.5099287Lauret Maria1624657MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828903803321Liberating literature3959774UNINA