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This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples
forming a menstrual imaginary-a body of work by women writers and
poets that builds up a concept of women's creativity in an effort
to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of
the menstrual imaginary in a series of letters, including Sylvia
Plath the initiator of 'the blood jet', Helene Cixous the pioneer
of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce
Irigaray the inaugurator of women's artistic process relative to a
vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also
undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the Medusa,
the Sphinx, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Red Shoes, as a means
of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman's flow.
Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and
creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing and problematic
societal views of menstruation.
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This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is
fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett's life and
writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging
scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett's work as it
relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language
politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical
approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender
theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book
demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens:
it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett's life,
his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important
collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett's work is not only
ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant
opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader
relationships between literature, culture and politics.
This book examines the representation of dictators and
dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify
the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of
the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains
the 'neoliberal' period after the 1970s as an effective
'recolonization' of Africa by Western states and international
financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of
concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa's
continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The
deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the
democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the
colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ngugi wa
Thiong'o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize
this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical
democracy.
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