The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature: Notes on a Wild Fluidity 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Dyer, Natalie Rose (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030598128 ISBN-13: 9783030598129 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.03 lbs) 250 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a menstrual imaginary--a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women's creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the menstrual imaginary in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of 'the blood jet', H l ne Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women's artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the Medusa, the Sphinx, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Red Shoes, as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman's flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing and problematic societal views of menstruation. |