Writing otherwise : experiments in cultural criticism / edited by Jackie Stacey, Janet Wolff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stacey, Jackie, editor.

Wolff, Janet, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--21st century.

English essays.

Expression.

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Leading figures in their field, including Marianne Hirsch, Lynne Pearce. Griselda Pollock, Carol Smart, Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff, step outside their usual ways of writing to explore how their academic concerns might be more imaginatively articulated. Contributions move beyond conventional academic writing and into more exploratory registers to consider subjects such as: feminist collaborations, memories of dislocation, movement and belonging, intimacy and affect, encountering difference, passionate connections to art and opera. Some chapters use personal writing to interrogate theoretical issues; others put conceptual questions next to therapeutic ones; all of them offer the reader new ways of thinking about how and why we write, and how we might do it differently. Discovering the creative spaces in between traditional genres, many of the chapters show how new styles of writing open up new ways of doing cultural criticism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Writing otherwise / Jackie Stacey Stacey, Jackie, Janet Wolff Wolff, Janet 1

Affects

Writing from the heart / Griselda Pollock Pollock, Griselda 19

Contact / Mary Cappello Cappello, Mary 34

On being open to difference: cosmopolitanism and the psychoanalysis of groups / Jackie Stacey Stacey, Jackie 45

Touching lives: writing the sociological and the personal / Carol Smart Smart, Carol 61

Displacements

Atlantic moves / Janet Wolff Wolff, Janet 75

Autopia: in search of what we're thinking when we're driving / Lynne Pearce Pearce, Lynne 92

Cheap chickens and ethical eggs: the place of an English village in the world / Vron Ware Ware, Vron 106

If the shoe fits: appropriating identity? / Brenda Cooper Cooper, Brenda 121

Dust and mangoes: plain tales and hill stations / Margaret Rachel Beetham Beetham, Margaret Rachel 135

Poetics

Bliss: opera's untenable pleasures / Monica B. Pearl Pearl, Monica B. 153

Graphic to surface: textual effects and criticism / Judy Kendall Kendall, Judy 169

First person plural: notes on voice and collaboration / Marianne Hirsch Hirsch, Marianne, Leo Spitzer Spitzer, Leo 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780719089428

0719089425

OCLC:

858310630