Alison Light - Inside History: From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing Contributor(s): Light, Alison (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474481558 ISBN-13: 9781474481557 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Women Authors |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.16 lbs) 244 pages |
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Publisher Description: Alison Light - Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction. |