| Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity Contributor(s): Chakravarty, Radha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415467314 ISBN-13: 9780415467315 Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison - are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| LCCN: 2008335201 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.99 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers -- Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison -- are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially. |