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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cooke, Jennifer (1977-....)
Titre(s) : Contemporary feminist life-writing [Texte imprimé] : the new audacity / Jennifer Cooke, ...
Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge university press, 2020
Description matérielle : ix, 226 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-221) and index
"Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first to identify and analyse the 'new
audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both
style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the
refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new
audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even,
on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment
of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie
Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie
Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write
about women's selfauthorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual
violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist
and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity,
trauma, and affect"
Sujet(s) : Autobiographie -- Femmes écrivains
Autobiographie -- 1990-2020
Féminisme -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
809.892 8709051 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Pour ou par des femmes - 2000-2019
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108489911. - ISBN 1108489915. - ISBN 9781108779692 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468704080
Notice n° :
FRBNF46870408
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The new audacity ; 1. Autobiography as Feminist Praxis ; New Audacity
in the Writing of Rape ; 2. Ugly Audacities in Auto/Biography ; Genius, Betrayal,
and Writer's Block ; 3. Stripping Off for the First Time ; Recasting Vulnerability
in the Writing of Hetero-Sex and Desire ; 4. Breaking the Binaries ; New Audacity
in the Writing of Trans Lives ; 5. The Dangers of Audacity ; Vanessa Place's Contradictory
Feminism ; Afterword: After Audacity.
