Surrealist women's writing : a critical exploration / edited by Anna Watz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watz, Anna, editor.

Series:

Manchester University Press Series

Manchester University Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism (Literature)--Women authors.

Surrealism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, this title offers a sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. The volume aims to demonstrate the extensiveness and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing, as well as to highlight how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics that characterise these writers' work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, xenophobia, anthropocentrism and the environment.

Contents:

Introduction / Anna Watz

1. 'The dung beetle's snowball': the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahun's essay-poetry / Felicity Gee

2. Identity convulsed: Leonora Carrington's The House of Fear and The Oval Lady / Anna Watz

3. Recasting the human: Leonora Carrington's dark exilic imagination / Jeannette Baxter

4. Colette Peignot: the purity of revolt / Michael Richardson

5. Suzanne Césaire's surrealism: tightrope of hope / Kara M. Rabbitt

6. Kay Sage alive in the world / Katharine Conley

7. Outside-in: translating Unica Zürn / Patricia Allmer

8. Ithell Colquhoun's experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetry / Mark S. Morrisson

9. Leonor Fini's abhuman family / Jonathan P. Eburne

10. 'Open sesame': Dorothea Tanning's critical writing / Catriona McAra

11. Magic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornet's surrealist ecology / Kristoffer Noheden

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed on January 19, 2021.

ISBN:

9781526132031

1526132036

OCLC:

1408682460