No Man's Land / István Bibó; Iván Zoltán Dénes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bibó, István, Author.

Contributor:

Dénes, Iván Zoltán, Editor.

Pásztor, Péter

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What might sex be, and what could sex roles be, in the midst of a war between men and women? What is a ";woman,"; a ";man,"; an ";androgyne";? Such questions haunt the works Gilbert and Gubar study in Sexchanges, the second volume of their landmark trilogy No Man's Land. Investigating the connections between the feminine and the modern made by writers from Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner, and Kate Chopin to Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Caryl Churchill, they show that the ";no man's land"; of the Great War became a metaphor for a crisis of masculinity-a crisis that was already associated with the decline of imperialism and the rise of the femme fatale at the fin de siecle, with the newly visible lesbian literary community that was formed in those years and with what many thinkers increasingly understood to be the artifice of gender. Throughout this century, the therefore argue, images of sexchanges-explored in fictions about transvestism and transsexualism-constituted a set of striking tropes through which male and female writers sought to combat one another's conceptions of the relation between anatomy and destiny.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

I. Feminism and Fantasy

II. Feminization and Its Discontents

III. Reinventing Gender

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300160895

0300160895

OCLC:

1024033170