| Description |
x, 240 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction --- I. The politics of recuperation. Reading feminist readings -- Recuperating agents --- II. The erotics of talk. Grl talk -- The oldest human longing -- Somebody I can talk to -- Conclusion: auditions. |
| Summary |
"In this provocative rereading of the classic texts of the feminist literary canon, Carla Kaplan takes a hard look at the legacy of feminist criticism and argues that important features of feminism's own canon have been overlooked in the rush to rescue and identify. African-American women's texts, she demonstrates, often dramatize their distrust of their readers, their lack of faith in "the cultural conversation," through strategies of self-silencing and "self-talk." At the same time, she argues, the homoerotics of women's writing has too often gone unremarked. Not only does longing for an ideal listener draw women's texts into a romance with the reader, but there is an erotic excess which is part of feminist critical recuperation, itself." "Drawing on a wide range of resources, from sociolinguistics and anthropology to literary theory, Kaplan's highly readable study proposes a new model for understanding and representing "talk.""--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897. Incidents in the life of a slave girl.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre.
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Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Literary form.
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| Added Title |
Women's writing and feminist paradigms |
| ISBN |
0195099141 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195099140 (acid-free paper) |
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019509915X (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780195099157 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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