Contemporary women's writing : from The golden notebook to The color purple /

Contemporary women's writing : from The golden notebook to The color purple /

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Author / Creator:	Joannou, Maroula.
Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Description:	ix, 211 p ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- History -- 20th century. Feminism and literature -- History -- 20th century. American prose literature. American prose literature -- Women authors. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Women authors. Feminism and literature. Women and literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4443544

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ISBN:	0719053382 0719053390 (Pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index.

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Summary:	This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience. Maroula Joannou recounts a time of innovation, hope and change in the history of literature and the history of women. She analyzes the literary impact of the women's movement in Britain and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, on books as diverse as Angela Carter's modern fairy tales and Ursula Le Guin's science fiction. Topics include femininity, sexuality, working-class women's writing, motherhood, continuities and change in the literary tradition, the feminist confessional novel, experiments in science and detective fiction, narratives engaging with the end of the British Empire and black women's writing in the United States. This contribution to literary history provides readings of A. S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble, Doris Lessing, Erica Jong, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, Jean Rhys, Joanna Russ, Alice Walker, Fay Weldon and others.
Physical Description:	ix, 211 p ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index.
ISBN:	0719053382 0719053390