Contemporary Women Writers Look Back

From Irony to Nostalgia

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvAlice Ridout,Dr Alice Ridout

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"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."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-05-01
Mått156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441130235

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AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Contemporary Women's Re-writing1. The Politics of Parody: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye2. 'Some books are not read in the right way': Parody and Reception in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook3. Parodic Self-Narratives: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle and The Blind Assassin4 Inheritances: Zadie Smith's On Beauty5 The Politics of Nostalgia: Jane Austen Recycled6 Afterword: BelatednessEndnotesBibliographyIndex

"Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia offers an original and probing analysis of the relationship between post-war women's fiction and temporality. By bringing the concepts of parody and nostalgia to bear on a variety of novels by women published from the 1960s to the present, Ridout illuminates the complex means by which textual repetition functions as a political and literary register for women novelists, providing a new and valuable means of unifying and understanding women's writing in the period."