TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Contemporary feminist life-writing : the new audacity
T2  - Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
A1  - Cooke, Jennifer, 1977- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5483866
AB  - "Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's selfauthorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect"--
SN  - 978-1-108-48991-1 sidottu
KW  - Autobiography : Feminist authors.
KW  - Autobiography : Women authors.
KW  - Feminism in literature.
KW  - Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
KW  - omaelämäkerrallisuus
KW  - feminismi
KW  - feministinen kirjallisuudentutkimus
KW  - autenttisuus
KW  - kirjallisuudentutkimus
KW  - självbiografiska drag
KW  - feminism
KW  - feministisk litteraturforskning
KW  - autenticitet
KW  - litteraturvetenskap
ER  -