Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing : The New Audacity PDF
by Jennifer (Loughborough University) Cooke
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture series
Description
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life.
Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law.
This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno.
It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission.
It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.
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- Publication Date:08/04/2020
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Publication Date:08/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108808194
