Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity

ISBN-13: 9781108489911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 234 str.

Jennifer Cooke

Opis

Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the new audacity of recent feminist writings from life.

Recenzje

'Jennifer Cooke's Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity is itself an audacious addition to the theoretical literature about life writing, self-narrative, and queer and feminist literary theory.' Kate Drabinski, Biography

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction. The new audacity; 1. Autobiography as feminist praxity: new audacity in the writing of rape; 2. Ugly audacities in auto/biography: genius, betrayal, and writer's block; 3. Stripping off for the first time: recasting vulnerability in the writing of hetero-sex and desire; 4. Breaking the binaries: new audacity in the writing of trans lives; 5. The dangers of audacity: Vanessa Place's contradictory feminism; Afterword. After audacity?; Bibliography; Index.