Title: Persuasive fictions
First published: 2001
Description: "Anna Wilson's Persuasive Fictions: Feminist Narrative and Critical Myth offers a new picture of how feminist texts have historically succeeded or failed to change people's lives. Using a range of narrative genres - novels and autobiographies, feature and documentary films, political pamphlets and feminist critical narratives - Wilson challenges the critical myth that feminist texts are naturally effective instruments for raising consciousness or promoting social change.

From Mary Wollstonecraft's novels to Thelma and Louise or the prose and films of Audre Lorde, her book documents how the first reception of a feminist work - whether in the 1790s or the 1990s - generates a truly unpredictable history of personal and political responses among readers, including the later critical interpretations that try to decide whether a text successfully "resists" the dominant values and powers of its culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Feminism and literature, American literature, History and criticism, History, Rape in motion pictures, Fictional works, Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, Narration (Rhetoric), Women and literature, Feminism and motion pictures, Women in literature, Wollstonecraft, mary, 1759-1797, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, American literature, women authors, Feminism and the arts, Rape, Narration (rhetoric)
Places: United States, England
People: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Audre Lorde, Marilyn French (1929-)
Time periods: 20th century, 18th century
LC classification: PS228.F45 W55 2001