Making the Personal Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970

ISBN-13: 9781905981373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 230 str.

Jane Fenoulhet

Opis

This is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. Eight case studies of women writers between 1919 and 1970 trace the unconscious politics of the personal in narratives of women's identity and experience through close readings of texts located in the culture of the time. Jane Fenoulhet, whose knowledge of Dutch literature and culture in the twentieth century is unparalleled in the English-speaking world, tracks the public representation of women's private project of self development to the moment when the personal is finally accepted as politically important in Dutch society.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Full Story: Dutch and Flemish Women Writers between the First and Second Feminist Waves 2. The Individual Asserts Herself: Carry van Bruggen and Ina Boudier-Bakker 3. Flirting with Feminism: The Best-Selling Novels of Jo van Ammers-Kuller 4. Self-Development as Resistance: Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum 5. Love, Pain, and Epiphany: Vasalis 6. Portraying the Marginalized: Anna Blaman 7. Rethinking the Family: Hella Haasse 8. The Personal and the Political

O autorze

Jane Fenoulhet