Writing on the Wall: Selected EssaysIn a varied selection of essays, Duncker takes on the classics of European literature - from the sexual politics of Milton, to an illuminating reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace as historical fiction. she also discusses contemporary women's writing, including Angela Carter's queer gothic, nationalism and Caribbean women's writing and the politics of heterosexuality in the work of Margaret Atwood and Jenny Diski. On a more personal note, the collection closes with examinations of the role of narrative, the problems of writing and the influences that have shaped Patricia Duncher's own work. |
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... feminist presses and feminist political activism of the 1970s and early 1980s is now over . Early feminist writing has been associated with earnest , moral- istic realism , now utterly discredited , while post - modernist writing has ...
... feminist presses and feminist political activism of the 1970s and early 1980s is now over . Early feminist writing has been associated with earnest , moral- istic realism , now utterly discredited , while post - modernist writing has ...
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... Feminism : the destruction of the gender system and the end to male privilege . We can only do that by ending the existence of the categories men / women . The post - gendered world , which has been the subject of so many fictional feminist ...
... Feminism : the destruction of the gender system and the end to male privilege . We can only do that by ending the existence of the categories men / women . The post - gendered world , which has been the subject of so many fictional feminist ...
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... feminist theory . ' French feminism ' is an American invention ... the hermetic writings of Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva et al . are not representative of today's feminist scholarship in France which on the whole is quite unsympathetic ...
... feminist theory . ' French feminism ' is an American invention ... the hermetic writings of Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva et al . are not representative of today's feminist scholarship in France which on the whole is quite unsympathetic ...
Contents
FICTIONS AND HISTORIES | 36 |
HOFFMANNS UNCANNY | 52 |
SEXUALITY AND CONTEMPORARY | 65 |
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