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No Man's Land - The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front (Paperback, New Paperback Ed)
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No Man's Land - The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front (Paperback, New Paperback Ed)
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How do writers and their readers imagine the future in a turbulent
time of sex war and sex change? And how have transformations of
gender and genre affected literary representations of "woman,"
"man," "family," and "society"? This final volume in Gilbert and
Gubar's landmark three-part No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman
Writer in the Twentieth Century argues that throughout the
twentieth century women of letters have found themselves on a
confusing cultural front and that most, increasingly aware of the
artifice of gender, have dispatched missives recording some form of
the "future shock" associated with profound changes in the roles
and rules governing sexuality. Divided into two parts, Letters from
the Front is chronological in organization, with the first section
focusing on such writers of the modernist period as Virginia Woolf,
Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and
H.D., and the second devoted to authors who came to prominence
after the Second World War, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia
Plath, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, and A.S. Byatt. Embroiled in
the sex antagonism that Gilbert and Gubar traced in The War of the
Words and in the sexual experimentations that they studied in
Sexchanges, all these artists struggled to envision the inscription
of hitherto untold stories on what H.D. called "the blank pages/of
the unwritten volume of the new." Through the works of the first
group, Gilbert and Gubar focus in particular on the demise of any
single normative definition of the feminine and the rise of
masquerades of "femininity" amounting to "female female
impersonation." In the writings of the second group, the critics
pay special attention to proliferating revisions of the family
romance-revisions significantly inflected by differences in race,
class, and ethnicity-and to the rise of masquerades of masculinity,
or "male male impersonation." Throughout, Gilbert and Gubar discuss
the impact on literature of such crucial historical events as the
Harlem Renaissance, the Second World War, and the "sexual
revolution" of the sixties. What kind of future might such a past
engender? Their book concludes with a fantasia on "The Further
Adventures of Snow White" in which their bravura retellings of the
Grimm fairy tale illustrate ways in which future writing about
gender might develop.
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