Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108489911)

Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.

Author: Jennifer Cooke
ISBN-10: 1108489915
ISBN-13: 9781108489911
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2020
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2021