Liberating Literature

Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices.
Lauret's historicisation of feminist political writing allows for a new definition of the genre, and enables her to illuminate the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing. Well-grounded historically and theoretically, Liberating Literature speaks about and to a political and cultural tradition, and offers stunning new readings of both familiar and neglected novels within the feminist canon. Reader and students of feminist fiction cannot afford to be without this major new work.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 `This Story Must be Told¿; Chapter 2 The Politics of Women¿s Liberation; Chapter 3 Liberating Literature; Chapter 4 `If We Restructure the Sentence Our Lives are Making¿; Chapter 5 Healing the Body Politic; Chapter 6 Seizing Time and Making New; Chapter 7 `Context is All¿; Conclusion;

About the author

Maria Lauret is a Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Lauret, Lauret Maria
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.1994
• EAN: 9780415065160
• ISBN: 978-0-415-06516-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 400 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form