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ISBN 10: 0203208358
ISBN 13: 9780203208359
Author: Maria Lauret
Liberating 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 1960s; socialist women’s writing of the 1930s; 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 women’s writing. Well-grounded historically and theoretically, Liberating Literature speaks about and to a political and cultural tradition, and offers stunning new readings of both familiar and neglected novels within the feminist canon. Reader and students of feminist fiction cannot afford to be without this major new work.
Liberating Literature 1st Table of contents:
- Introduction American women’s writing and social movements from the 1930s to the 1980s
- ‘This Story Must be Told’ Women writers of the 1930s
- Radical Realism: Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth
- Writing on a Battlefield: Tillie Olsen’s Yonnondio and Tell Me a Riddle
- Sexual Differences: Meridel Lesueur’s the Girl and Harvest & Song for My Time
- A History of Feelings: Josephine Herbst’s Rope of Gold
- ‘I Want the Boss’s Bed’: Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance
- Writing in Circles: Ann Petry’s the Street
- Through the Looking-Glass: 1930s-1970s
- The Politics of Women’s Liberation
- From the 1930s to the 1960s: From the Old to the New Left
- Origins of Women’s Liberation: The 1960s
- Early Actions, Debates and the Myth of Unity
- 1964–1967
- 1968–1974
- The 1970s: Personal Politics and Consciousness-Raising
- The 1980s: The Paradox of Pro-Family ‘Feminism’
- Black Women and Women’s Liberation
- Women’s Liberation: the Failure of Success and the Success of Failure
- Liberating Literature
- Literature and American Feminism
- Women’s Liberation Fiction: Roots in Cultural Revolution
- Women’s Movement Writing
- In Search of a Vanishing Object: Feminist Fiction
- Gender, Genre and Literary Theory in the Reception of Feminist Fiction
- ‘If We Restructure the Sentence Our Lives are Making’ Feminist fictions of subjectivity
- Fictions of Subjectivity: Theorising Personal/Political Writing
- Is Feminist Realism Different?
- Uses of the Autobiographical Voice and the Paradox of True Stories
- ‘So Why Write Novels? Indeed, Why! I Suppose We have to Go on Living as if…’: Doris Lessing’s the Golden Notebook
- Letting the Voices Out: Marilyn French’s the Women’s Room
- Learning Lessing’s Lesson: Kate Millett’s Flying
- African-American Autobiography
- ‘For the Black Voice and Any Ear Which can Hear It’: Maya Angelou’s Autobiographical Work
- Writing the House of Difference: Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
- Healing the Body Politic Alice Walker’s Meridian
- Body Politics: Reading the Womanist Text
- The Elevation of the Other? Exploring Black Female Subjectivity
- Meridian: The Body of the Text
- History, Hysteria, Her Story
- Race, Class, and Gender: A Critical Debate
- A Womanist Aesthetic: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement
- Seizing Time and Making New Marge Piercy’s Vida
- Placing Vida: Thematics and Narrative Structure
- Re-Presenting the 1960s: Vida and the History of SDS and Weather Underground
- 1967
- 1970
- 1974
- ‘The Present’: Utopian Realism in Vida
- Reading Vida: Contradictions of the Paranoid Text
- Feminist Realism and Fictional Representations of History
- ‘Context is All’ Backlash fictions of the 1980s
- Feminist Fiction and the Rise of the New Right
- ‘A Long View Back’: Marge Piercy’s Braided Lives
- ‘Context is All’: Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale
- New Rules, Old Games: Sue Miller’s the Good Mother
- Conclusion The future of feminist fiction, or, is there a feminist aesthetic?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
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