Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
The New Audacity
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:16th Apr '20
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Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the new audacity of recent feminist writings from life.
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume 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 self-authorship, 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.
'Jennifer Cooke's Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity is itself an audacious addition to the theoretical literature about life writing, self-narrative, and queer and feminist literary theory.' Kate Drabinski, Biography
ISBN: 9781108489911
Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
Weight: 460g
234 pages