Title: The dialogic self
First published: 1999
Description: This study addresses the dilemma of the female subject whereby women claim empowerment and the right to authorize themselves, yet so resist the idea of patriarchal authority, that in undermining all authority they may deny their own.

By theorizing subjectivity according to the dialogic model of Mikhail Bakhtin, author Roxanne J. Fand posits a moderating self-narrator who, rather than imposing a single authoritarian voice of fixed ideology and identity, negotiates among diverse internalized voices of one's social-ecological milieu.

Fand analyzes the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Margaret Atwood in the light of various literary, psychoanalytic, sociolinguistic, and postmodern theories in order to show how each writer formulates her dialogic view of subjectivity, considering her historical moment in feminism.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Women and literature, English fiction, History, Women authors, Subjectivity in literature, Self in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, English fiction, women authors, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, Lessing, doris, 1919-2013, Atwood, margaret eleanor, 1939-
Places: Canada, England
People: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Doris Lessing (1919-2013), Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR888.W6 F36 1999