Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting (Hardcover)

Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory. It discusses a broad range of European and North American texts and contexts to tease out the internal contradictions of women's rewriting in the transmission of culture. Contemporary women's rewriting emerged in a moment of history particularly obsessed with memory. A literary genre in which narratives of the past are retold from the perspective of a female character in the original story, women's rewriting literally re-calls the old stories differently. Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting is a detailed and representative study of how feminist fiction uses rewriting to engage questions of cultural remembrance and forgetting in relation to gendered identity, generating incisive interpretations of works by such authors as Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Maryse Conde, Ursula Le Guin, Sena Jeter Naslund, Pia Pera, Michele Roberts, Jeanette Winterson and Christa Wolf.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2011
Authors:	L. Plate
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	239
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-23221-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-230-23221-3
Barcode:	9780230232211

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