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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/9287
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: BoyntonVictoria MalinJo <1942->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Herspace
• ISBN: 1-315-78594-3; 1-317-71902-6; 1-317-71903-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808886603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Haworth innovations in feminist studies.