The Not So Blank Blank Page: The Politics of Narrative and the Woman Narrator in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Novel

ISBN-13: 9780820476490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 150 str.

Thorell Porter Tsomondo

Opis

A fascinating and underexplored feature of the English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel is that, whether written by man or woman, the -female--narrated text codes and thematizes narrative travail. Female self-telling in these works is impelled and accompanied by psychic, rhetorical, even physical pain. This book focuses on this phenomenon, beginning with a non-essentialized definition of a -woman s text.- Thorell Porter Tsomondo offers a fresh and useful frame of reference for understanding the tradition present from the origins of the novel of narrative from a marginalized position, a position instructed not just by gender but by class, colonial and postcolonial politics, and the exigencies of the narrative terrain itself."

O autorze

The Author: Thorell Porter Tsomondo is Professor of English literature and Literary Theory at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published numerous articles in professional journals on such writers as Austen, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Naipaul.