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WOMEN'S FICTION AND POST-9/11 CONTEXTS
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| By: |
Peter Childs (Editor), Claire Colebrook (Editor), Sebastian Groes (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
1498500951 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781498500951 |
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| Publisher: |
LEXINGTON BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
21 October, 2014 |
| Pages: |
234 |
| Description: |
Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled "women's writing," this volume explores the ways in which twenty-first-century crises have problematized identity, literature, and narration. |
| Synopsis: |
9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed "clash of civilizations," and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that "on or about December 1910 human character changed," has marked such a singular point in the perception of time, identity and nature. Women's writing has always been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and point of view beyond that of the "man" of reason. This collection of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century. |
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US |
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Lexington Books |
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