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Zusatztext "By charting the modes of temporality structuring post-1960s women's popular fiction! Elliott offers an illuminating way of articulating the narratives of second-wave feminism to evolving conceptions of capitalist America. Her argument that these narratives are! first and foremost! national allegories gives them a refreshing intelligibility and historical agency. It's the kind of argument with which! whether or not they agree with her! future generations of scholars will need to reckon." - Rey Chow! Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities! Brown University and author of Sentimental Fabulations! Contemporary Chinese Films "In this impressive debut! Jane Elliott revisits a fascinating passage in recent American culture! when feminism could advance through popular fiction and critical theory alike. She examines a series of novels both famous and forgotten! unfolding their allegorical layers to show how they speak directly to the changing contours of domination and liberation in women s lives. The book offers timely lessons! not only about the renewable resources of popular cultural forms! but also about the value of allegorical reading for contemporary critical practice." - Richard Dienst! Department of English! Rutgers University Informationen zum Autor JANE ELLIOTT is Lecturer of English at University of York, UK. Klappentext This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture. Zusammenfassung This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Problem of Static Time: Totalization, the End of History and the End of the 1960s Heir Apparent: Legacies of the 1960s in The Women's Room and Vida Dead-End Job: The Stepford Wives, Domestic Labor and the End of History Promiscuous Times: Post-Structuralist Desires in Rubyfruit Jungle and Fear of Flying Alice Walker's Hindsight and the Price of Futurity My Mother, Myself: Sentiment and the Transcendence of Time in The Joy Luck Club and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Coda: Hurried Woman Tales...
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The Problem of Static Time: Totalization, the End of History and the End of the 1960s Heir Apparent: Legacies of the 1960s in The Women's Room and Vida Dead-End Job: The Stepford Wives, Domestic Labor and the End of History Promiscuous Times: Post-Structuralist Desires in Rubyfruit Jungle and Fear of Flying Alice Walker's Hindsight and the Price of Futurity My Mother, Myself: Sentiment and the Transcendence of Time in The Joy Luck Club and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Coda: Hurried Woman Tales
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"By charting the modes of temporality structuring post-1960s women's popular fiction, Elliott offers an illuminating way of articulating the narratives of second-wave feminism to evolving conceptions of capitalist America. Her argument that these narratives are, first and foremost, national allegories gives them a refreshing intelligibility and historical agency. It's the kind of argument with which, whether or not they agree with her, future generations of scholars will need to reckon." - Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University and author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
"In this impressive debut, Jane Elliott revisits a fascinating passage in recent American culture, when feminism could advance through popular fiction and critical theory alike. She examines a series of novels both famous and forgotten, unfolding their allegorical layers to show how they speak directly to the changing contours of domination and liberation in women s lives. The book offers timely lessons, not only about the renewable resources of popular cultural forms, but also about the value of allegorical reading for contemporary critical practice." - Richard Dienst, Department of English, Rutgers University
