Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526132024)

Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers' work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

Drawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne C駸aire, Unica Z?n, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.

Author: Anna Watz
ISBN-10: 1526132028
ISBN-13: 9781526132024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2021