Women's Movement. Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction. - SLETTEDAHL MACPHERSON, HEIDI
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Women's Movement critically explores the transgressive potential of feminist escape narratives and argues that they are, almost by definition, radically different from paradigmatic male escape narratives. While definitions of escape are necessarily broad, they have too often excluded the ambiguous escape – the escape most closely associated with the female. Indeed, feminist escape narratives often resist a happy ending, andWomen's Movement argues that these narrative closures reflect the changing face of feminism, as it sheds its old certainties, is faced with a monumental “backlash” and is refigured as the potentially less threatening “postfeminism”.Resisting the automatic association of “escape” with “escapist,” Women's Movement analyzes male adventure and quest narratives, includingMoby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blood Meridian, and Deliverance, before turning to a range of feminist texts. While being the first book to give critical attention to some postfeminist novels,Women's Movement more...
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2000Uitgever: Rodopi Bv Editions262 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 9042013621ISBN-13: 9789042013629Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publishers sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: x, 262pp., conclusion, works cited, index. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 128: Costerus New Series. Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 2000 [Auteur: SLETTEDAHL MACPHERSON, HEIDI] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Women's Movement. Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction.]
