Narrative in the Feminine
Subtitle: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780889203013
Subjects: Feminism; Literary studies: general; Theory Of Literature; Women In Literature; American English; Literary Criticism; Canada; LIT; LIT004040; LIT004290; LIT006000; Semiotics & Theory; American - African American & Black; Women Authors
Description: "Susan Knutson begins her study with an analysis of the contributions made by Marlatt and Brossard to international feminist theory. Part Two presents a narratological reading of How Hug a Stone, arguing that at the deepest level of narrative, Marlatt constructs a gender-inclusive human subject that defaults not to the generic masculine but to the feminine.

Part Three proposes a parallel reading of Picture Theory, Brossard's playful novel that draws us into (re-) readings of many other texts written by Brossard, Barnes, Wittig, Joyce, de Beauvoir, Homer...to name a few. Chapter 12 closes with a reflection on the expression ecriture au feminin - a Quebecois contribution to an international theoretical debate.".

"Readers who care about feminist writing and language theory, and students and teachers of Canadian literature and critical and queer studies, will find this book invaluable for its careful readings, its scholarly overview, and its extension of the feminist concept of the generic."--BOOK JACKET.