Cross-gendered literary voices
Subtitle: appropriating, resisting, embracing
By: edited by Rina Kim and Claire Westall
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230299870
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; Psychology; Male authors; Other (Philosophy) in literature; FICTION / Contemporary Women; Women authors; Point of view (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices PART I: EMPOWERING OR EFFACING THE VICTORIAN OTHER?Female Narrative Energy in the Writings of Dead White Males: Dickens, Collins and Freud Women Writing Women Writers "Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration": Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-siècle PART II: RESISTING AND EMBRACING THE OTHER VIA THE ABJECT ENTITY"These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here": Tidal Voicing and the Poetics of Home in James Joyce's UlyssesWhat Happens When a Transvestite Gynecologist Usurps the Narrator?: Cross-Gendered Ventriloquism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood"Her speech a purely buccal phenomenon": Voice as a Lost Object in Samuel Beckett's WorksThe Engendered and Dis-engendered Other in Iris Murdoch's Early FictionPART III: GENDER AS PERFORMANCE AND THE VOCALIZATION OF TRANSGENDERED BODIES"His almost vanished voice": Gendering and Trans-Gendering Bodily Signification and the Power of the Voice in Angela Carter's The Passion of New EveTransvestic Voices and Gendered Performance in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto Transgendered Bodies and Voices in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex and Rose Tremain's Sacred CountryPART IV: AUTHORITY AND ANXIETIES OF APPROPRIATION IN HISTORICAL NARRATIVESAuthenticity, Authority and the Author: The Sugared Voice of the Neo-Victorian Prostitute in The Crimson Petal and the White "Queering' the Stuttering in Sarah Waters" The Little StrangerConclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings BibliographyIndex.