Legacies and lifespans in contemporary women's writing / Gina Wisker, Leanne Bibby, Heidi Yeandle, editors.
Wisker, Gina, 1951- ditor.; Bibby, Leanne, editor.; Yeandle, Heidi, editor.
2023
PN471 .L44 2023
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Title Legacies and lifespans in contemporary women's writing / Gina Wisker, Leanne Bibby, Heidi Yeandle, editors.
ISBN 3031280938 electronic book
9783031280931 (electronic bk.)
303128092X
9783031280924
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28093-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-28093-1 doi
Call Number PN471 .L44 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.89287
Summary This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary womens writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary womens writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted the contemporary, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between womens writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2023).
Added Author Wisker, Gina, 1951- ditor.
Bibby, Leanne, editor.
Yeandle, Heidi, editor.
Series Palgrave studies in contemporary women's writing.
Available in Other Form Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing
LEGACIES AND LIFESPANS IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S WRITING.
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Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing Back and Looking Forward
Works Cited
Chapter 2: Haunting Relationships, Dark Visions, Personal Dangers and Encounters with Strangers in Gothic Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield (1920), Shirley Jackson (1946), Daphne du Maurier (1952), and Alice Munro (2012)
Women's Gothic
Freud, Existentialism and Phenomenology
Katherine Mansfield (1921)
Mansfield, Women's Gothic and Gothic Horror
Influences-Mansfield and du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier and Shirley Jackson, Gothic Horror
Shirley Jackson

Alice Munro
Conclusion
Works Cited
Websites
Chapter 3: (Dis)continuing the Mother-daughter Dyad in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? Working Back Through Our Mothers
Introduction
Are You My (Biological) Mother?
Are You My (Literary) Mother?
Are You My (Therapeutic) Mother?
Transitional Objects and the Use of the Past
Works Cited
Chapter 4: 'You'll be told lies about me, or perhaps even nothing at all.' Facts, Fictions, and Anachronism and Realism in Contemporary Women's Historical Novels
Facts, Fictions, and the 'practical past'

Deryn Lake, Suzannah Dunn, and the Historical Event
Events, Anachronisms, and Back Again: Suzannah Dunn's Tudor Queens
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 5: A Feminist Genealogy: L'Écriture Féminine, The Youngest Doll, and Contemporary Puerto Rican Women Writers
L'écriture Féminine
When Women Love Men
The Poisoned Story
"At the Beginning of a New History": Zoé Jiménez Corretjer and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
Works Cited
Chapter 6: The Smallest Room of One's Own: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in Close Quarters
Works Cited
Chapter 7: "They are not only one

They're two, and three, and four": Building a Trauma Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
Works Cited
Chapter 8: 'Ageing and Care in Contemporary Women's Writing: Doris Lessing's The Diary of a Good Neighbour and Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby'
Ageing, Care and Time
The Diary of a Good Neighbour
Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 9: (Re)Writing the Future/Disavowing the Past: Reading Feminism(s) in The Power and The Handmaid's Tale
Generational Divides?
Paradoxical Positioning
Narrative (Re)Framing

Materiality, the Body, the Gaze
The Power of the Gaze
(In)Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

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