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Engendering the subject : gender and self-representation in contemporary women's fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Robinson, Sally, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1991.
Series:SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Repetition and resistance in Doris Lessing's "Children of violence"
  • The female Oedipus: gender and the (de)structuring of Martha's quest
  • A theory for Martha: gender and the production of subjectivity
  • Gendered address and Martha's self-representation
  • 2. Angela Carter and the circus of theory: writing woman and women's writing
  • Derrida: the affirmative woman and the feminist
  • Irigaray: mimicry, contradiction and the subject of feminism
  • The anti-hero as Oedipus: gender and the postmodern narrative
  • Difference as spectacle: deconstructing mythologies of gender
  • 3. "We're all consequences of something": cultural mythologies of gender and race in the novels of Gayl Jones
  • Black female essence: slavery and the culture production of the black woman
  • Corregidora: black female subjectivity and the politics of heterosexuality
  • Eva's man: excess as subversion
  • Epilogue: On representation and self-representation.