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Contemporary feminist life-writing: the new audacity
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- English and Drama
Publisher
Cambridge University PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Rights holder
© Jennifer CookePublication date
2020-04-30Copyright date
2020ISBN
9781108489911; 9781108779692Publisher version
Book series
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and CultureLanguage
- en