Long before John Barth announced in his famous 1967 essay that late
twentieth-century fiction was "The Literature of Exhaustion,"
authors have been retelling and recycling stories. Barth was,
however, right to identify in postmodern fiction a particular
self-consciousness about its belatedness at the end of a long
literary tradition. This book traces the move in contemporary
women's writing from the self-conscious, ironic parodies of
postmodernism to the nostalgic and historical turn of the
twenty-first century. It analyses how contemporary women writers
deal with their literary inheritances, offering an illuminating and
provocative study of contemporary women writers' re-writings of
previous texts and stories. Through close readings of novels by key
contemporary women writers including Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing,
Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Emma Tennant and Helen Fielding, and
of the ITV adaptation, Lost in Austen, Alice Ridout examines the
politics of parody and nostalgia, exploring the limitations and
possibilities of both in the contexts of feminism and
postcolonialism.
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