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Feminine Fictions - Revisiting the Postmodern (Hardcover)
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Feminine Fictions - Revisiting the Postmodern (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
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'Postmodernism' and 'feminism' have become familiar terms since the
1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many
strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates
arising out of these movements had so little to say about each
other? Patricia Waugh addresses the relationship between feminist
and postmodernist writing and theory through the insights of
psychoanalysis and in the context of the development of modern
fiction in Britain and America. She attempts to uncover the reasons
why women writers have been excluded from the considerations of
postmodern art. Her route takes her through the theorization of
self offered by Freud and Lacan and on to the concept of
subjectivity articulated by Kleinian and later object-relations
psychoanalysts. She argues that much women's writing has been
inappropriately placed and interpreted within a predominantly
formalist-orientated aesthetic and a post-Freudian/liberal,
individualist conceptualization of subjectivity and artistic
expression. This tendency has been intensified in discussions of
postmodernism, and a new feminist aesthetic is thus badly needed.
In the second part of the book Patricia Waugh analyses the work of
six 'traditional' and six 'experimental' writers, challenging the
restrictive definitions of 'realist', 'modernist', 'postmodernist'
in the light of the theoretical position developed in part one.
Authors covered include: Woolf (viewed as a postmodernist
'precursor' rather than a 'high' modernist), Drabble, Tyler, Plath,
Brookner, Paley, Lessing, Weldon, Atwood, Walker, Spark, Russ, and
Piercy.
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