Fiction and theory : crossing boundaries
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Fiction and theory : crossing boundaries
（Feminist review, 74）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2003
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In this issue feminist literary critics consider possible accommodations between postmodernist and humanist conceptions of identity. The essays discuss a wide variety of texts from a turn-of-the-century Australian popular romance to a 20th-century Indian novel, and including poetry as well as prose. They explore the viability of retaining female agency, in revised versions of selfhood, while simultaneously accepting that identity is always constructed in language, provisional, and the outcome of complex intersections of "race", ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. The articles revisit crucial questions about the relationship between gender and writing, and writing and the body. Themes include transgender, sati, autobiography, androgyny and aesthetics.
Table of Contents
- The power of the ordinary subversive in "Jackie Kay's Trumpet", T. Hargreaves
- as unconscious and gay as a trout in a stream? - turning the trope of the Australian girl, T. Dalziell
- did Mrs Danvers warm Rebecca's pearls? significant exchanges and the extension of lesbian space and time in literature, N. Hallett
- promising alliances - the critical feminist theory of Nancy Fraser and Sayla Benhabib, M. Canaday
- "infidelity to an impossible task" - postmodernism, feminism and Lyn Hejinian's "My Life", N.Marsh
- the liminal body - the language of pain, symbolism and rights around sati, A. Lakshmi
- exploring the interspace - recent dialogues around the work of Annie Ernaux, L. Day and L. Thomas.
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