The difference within : feminism and critical theory / edited by Elizabeth Meese and Alice Parker.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Meese, Elizabeth A., 1943-

Parker, Alice, 1937-

Conference Name:

Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (13th : 1986 : University of Alabama)

Series:

Critical theory ; v. 8.

Critical theory, 0920-3060 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism--Congresses.

Feminist literary criticism.

Feminism and literature--Congresses.

Feminism and literature.

Women in literature--Congresses.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this volume represent the most recent thinking collected on the problematics of feminism and critical theory, engaging the question of the relationship between these terms and the differences within each in terms of the other. As a whole, this piece of an extended conversation within feminism suggests both the illusory comfort of generic demarcations and the discomforting power of the play of difference. The articles are theoretically wide-ranging and provocative, offering discussion of works by such authors as Nella Larsen, Frances Harper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker,

Contents:

THE DIFFERENCE WITHIN: FEMINISM AND CRITICAL THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; ""Grins . . . without the cat"": Introductory remarks on ""The difference within""; REFERENCES; Nancy Reagan wears a hat: Feminism and its cultural consensus; NOTES; REFERENCES; Some different meanings of the concept of ""difference"":Feminist theory and the concept of ideology; ""Difference"" I.; ""Difference"" II.; ""Difference"" III.; Discussion; NOTES; REFERENCES

The asylums of Antaeus Women, war and madness: Is there a feminist fetishism?; 1. Helen's plot; 2. The semiotics and somatics of woman's suffrage; NOTES; REFERENCES; When Lindbergh sleeps with Bessie Smith: The writing of place in Toni Morrison's Sula; NOTES; REFERENCES; Sieving the matriheritage of the sociotext; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. Slovo and writing by women; 3. Woman, self, social being; 4. La femme qui parte: ""Madame Texte""; 5. The enthymeme in writing by women; NOTES; REFERENCES; The power of division; NOTES; REFERENCES; Notes on an alternative model - neither/nor; NOTES

REFERENCES; Feminist historiography and post-structuralist thought Intersections and departures; NOTES; REFERENCES; A response to ""The difference within: Feminism and critical theory""; NOTES; REFERENCES

Notes:

Papers presented at the 13th Annual University of Alabama Symposium on Literature and Language, held in 1986.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

1-283-35881-6

9786613358813

90-272-7849-0

OCLC:

769190396