| Feminist Poetics: Poiesis, Performance, Histories Contributor(s): Threadgold, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415062918 ISBN-13: 9780415062916 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: b /b b i Feminist Poetics /i /b argues that the influence of poststructuralism has changed poetics from the study of ready-made textual forms into poesis--the study of the making or performing of those forms. Threadgold takes the infamous Governor murder stories--a sensational murder case in Australia in 1900--as a case study and uses the extensive group of texts produced about the case to answer the questions raised by feminist theory--who writes and for whom, and who reads and how and why. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 96028384 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.4" W x 9.48" (1.04 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the Governor murder stories, murders committed against white women and children by black men in Australia in 1900. This book is a feminist poetics for those who are engaged in the teaching of literacies, and in the making of Knowledge about literacies. |