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The erotics of talk : women's writing and feminist paradigms / by Carla Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Carla.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- American literature.
- Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Literary form.
- Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897. Incidents in the life of a slave girl.
- Jacobs, Harriet A.
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God.
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre.
- Brontë, Charlotte.
- Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple.
- Walker, Alice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- A rereading of the American feminist criticism of the past two decades and the literary canon which it has constructed as its foundation. It reads a group of feminist classics focusing on how each work represents talk and how feminist criticism has talked about these representations.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: In Search of an Ideal Listener; In Search of an Ideal Listener; Theorizing Cultural Conversation; The Ethics of Feminist Criticism; Listening to Women's Writing; The Erotics of Talk; Stipulations: ""Can We Talk?""; I: THE POLITICS OF RECUPERATION; 1 silence: Reading Feminist Reading: Recuperative Reading and the Silent Heroine of Feminist Criticism; 2 contracts: Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; II: THE EROTICS OF TALK; 3 romance: Girl Talk: Jane Eyre and the Romance of Women's Narration
- 4 dialogue: ""That Oldest Human Longing"": The Erotics of Talk in Their Eyes Were Watching God5 exchange: ""Somebody I Can Talk To"": Teaching Feminism Through The Color Purple; Conclusion: Auditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-52826-5
- 0-19-534457-X
- OCLC:
- 476013263
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