Subversive intent : gender, politics, and the avant-garde

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Subversive intent : gender, politics, and the avant-garde

Susan Rubin Suleiman

Harvard University Press, 1990

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index

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ISBN 9780674853836

内容説明

With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde. She shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor, has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists of this century. Focusing also on women's avant-garde artistic practices, Suleiman demonstrates how to read difficult modern works in a way that reveals their political as well as their aesthetic impact. Suleiman directly addresses the subversive intent of avant-garde movements from Surrealism to postmodernism. Through her detailed readings of provocatively transgressive works by Andre Breton, Georges Bataille, Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and others, Suleiman demonstrates the central role of the female body in the male erotic imagination and illuminates the extent to which masculinist assumptions have influenced modern art and theory. By examining the work of contemporary women avantgarde artists and theorists--including Helene Cixous, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, Luce Irigaray, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy Sherman--Suleiman shows the political power of feminist critiques of patriarchal ideology, and especially emphasizes the power of feminist humor and parody. Central to Suleiman's revisionary theory of the avant-garde is the figure of the playful, laughing mother. True to the radically irreverent spirit of the historical avant-gardes and their postmodernist successors, Suleiman's laughing mother embodies the need for a link between symbolic innovation and political and social change.
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: pbk ISBN 9780674853843

内容説明

In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers.

目次

  • Prologue - playing and modernity: pleasures of theory
  • metapolylogue - on playing and modernity. Part 1 A double margin - woman writers and the avant-garde in France: of margins and avant-gardes
  • the Surrealist subject
  • women in the history of Surrealism. Part 2 Aggressions and counteraggressions - readability in avant-garde fiction: reading and rupture
  • Robbe-Grillet, or, the readability of transgression
  • Maurice Roche - paradigm lost and found
  • self-reflexive afterthought. Part 3 Reading Robbe-Grillet - sadism and text in project pour une revolution a New York. Part 4 Transgression and the avant-garde - Bataille's "Histoire de l'oeil": pornography as textuality
  • pornography as "Reality"
  • feminist poetics and the pornographic imagination. Part 5 Love stories - women, madness, and narrative: mastery and transference - the significance of "Dora"
  • Breton, Charcot, and the spectacle of female otherness
  • Duras/Lucan - not knowing as entanglement. Part 6 The politics and poetics of female eroticism: equal rights, or, telling it with four-letter words
  • celebrating difference, or, writing (and reading) otherwise dreaming beyond the number two. Part 7 Feminist intertextuality and the laugh of the mother: parody and politics
  • parody, perversion, collage - Surrealists at play
  • daughers playing - some feminist rewritings and the mother
  • "The Hearing Trumpet" - Marian Leatherby and the holy grail
  • the laugh of the mother. Part 8 Feminism and postmodernism - in lieu of an ending: une histoire bien postmoderne
  • discourses on the postmodern and the emergence of feminist postmodernism
  • opposition in Babel? the political status of postmodern intertextuality
  • to market, to market - oppositional art in mass culture
  • of cyborgs and (other) "Women" - the politics of decentered subjects.

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