Subversive intent
Subtitle: gender, politics, and the avant-garde
By: Susan Rubin Suleiman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781480253025
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Feminism and literature; Social norms in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); French literature; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Experimental Literature; Erotic literature; Women and literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. A Double Margin : Women Writers and the Avant-Garde in France; title: 2. Aggressions and Counteraggressions : Readability in Avant-Garde Fiction; title: 3. Reading Robbe-Grillet : Sadism and Text in 'Projet pour une vevolution a New York'; title: 4. Transgression and the Avant-Garde : Bataille's 'Histoire de l'oeil'; title: 5. Love Stories : Women, Madness, and Narrative; title: 6. The Politics and Poetics of Female Eroticism; title: 7. Feminist Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother; title: 8. Feminism and Postmodernism : In Lieu of and Ending.