White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue - Criticism as Autobiography (Hardcover)

Originally published in 1991. The style of this startlingly original appraisal of a broad range of women's writing suggests a new direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does challenging, intellectual debate and fresh textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail to make a wholly new invention in the field. In addressing the need for the critic to say 'I' and to own judgments and statements instead of attributing these to an apparently impersonal third person, the author here points up some of the shortcomings of much prevailing 'feminist' analysis, challenging the very foundations of the Anglo-American feminist idea. Purposely avoiding the 'totalising' effect of much academic criticism, the writer/critic finds a new format and a new methodology for her insights and observations on a range of writers, from Doris Lessing to Helene Cixious. Her unique analysis of the links between criticism and autobiography enable her to highlight the absurdity of attempting to write in the light of recent critical and scientific knowledge as if the self were a stable, unified construct, introducing instead a new, creative understanding of the methods and modes of women's writing. This sparkling collection presents an exciting and original new voice in literary criticism. It tackles issues fundamental to literary theory, feminist criticism, psychoanalysis and cultural studies, offering new critical insights and providing a significant and wholly original feminist contribution to these key fields.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Women and Writing
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	1991
Authors:	Nicole Ward Jouve
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-226415-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-03-226415-2
Barcode:	9781032264158

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