Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude

ISBN-13: 9780789018205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str.

Victoria Boynton; Jo Malin

Opis

Combines literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism expanding the exploration of women's tradtional space in the home and in less traditional settings, Begins with a discussion of solitude as a key theme in the works of a variety of writers, & moves on to examine actual solitary spaces.

Spis treści

• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section I: Women Theorizing Herspace—Solitude and Writing
• 1. Women Alone: The Spinster’s Art
• 2. With Sure and Uncertain Footing: Negotiating the Terrain of a Solitude in May Sarton’s Journals
• 3. Unknown Women: Secular Solitude in the Works of Alice Koller and May Sarton
• 4. A Veritable Guest to Her Own Self
• 5. Woolf, Hurston, and the House of Self
• 6. The Domestic Politics of Marguerite Duras
• Section II: Women’s Writing Spaces—Solitude and the Creative Process
• 7. Writing Women, Solitary Space, and the Ideology of Domesticity
• 8. Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing
• 9. Between the Study and the Living Room: Writing Alone and with Others
• Section III: Women Writing Herspace—Personal Takes on Home
• 10. What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction)
• 11. The Little Gray House and Me
• 12. The Colors and the Light
• 13. A Woman’s Place
• 14. Reframing My Life
• 15. An &/or Peace Performance
• Afterword

O autorze

J Dianne Garner, Victoria Boynton, Jo Malin