Women's experimental writing : negative aesthetics and feminist critique / Ellen E. Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Ellen E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997--Criticism and interpretation.

Acker, Kathy.

Barry, Lynda, 1956---Criticism and interpretation.

Barry, Lynda.

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung--Criticism and interpretation.

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung.

Chawaf, Chantel--Criticism and interpretation.

Chawaf, Chantel.

Solanas, Valerie--Criticism and interpretation.

Solanas, Valerie.

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959---Criticism and interpretation.

Winterson, Jeanette.

Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Summary:

"Women's Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry. These writers all share a commitment to combining extreme content with formally radical techniques in order to enact varieties of gender, sex, race, class and nation-based experience that, they suggest, may only be "represented" accurately through the experimental unmaking of dominant structures of rationality. Ellen Berry extends the anti-social negative critique predominant in queer studies by offering an alternative archive of feminist negative literary practices and explores the consequences of joining an anti-social critique with radical innovations in literary and cultural forms. She argues that the radical aesthetic practices the authors employ are central to the emergence of contemporary Western feminisms and in doing so rectifies a critical neglect of contemporary experimental writing by women, especially in politicized forms, within the still-emerging postmodern canon."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: Homicidal Feminism: Negative Aesthetics in Valerie Solanas's Scum Manifesto

Chapter Two: Kathy Acker's Fatal Strategies

Chapter Three: 'The Remnant Is the Whole': History, Trauma, and the Politics of Absence in Theresa Cha's Dictee

Chapter Four: Abjection and the 'Monstrous Masculine' in Chantel Chawaf's Redemption

Chapter Five: Suspending Gender?: The Politics of Indeterminacy in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body

Chapter Six: Becoming-Girl/Becoming-Fly/Becoming-Imperceptible: Gothic Posthumanism in Lynda Barry's Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474226394

1474226396

9781474226424

1474226426

OCLC:

945375876