Male Rage Female Fury - Gender and Violence in Contemporary American Fiction

In four chapters, each dedicated to an experimental American novelist of the postmodern period, Male Rage Female Fury investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions such as temporal chronology, refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The result, Maxwell argues, is an ambiguity or "internal tension" that may eventually produce more misogynistic images within the texts. Central to the study is an analysis of the violence, male and female initiated, in the works of the minimalists Barthelme and Didion, and the mythicists Pynchon and Morrison.

About the author

Marilyn Maxwell is an English Teacher at Hewlett High School in New York.

Summary

This text investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The author argues that the result is an ambiguity that may produce more misogynistic images within the text.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Maxwell, Maxwell Marilyn
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2000
• EAN: 9780761818038
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-1803-8
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Violence and abuse in society, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity