Violence and the Female Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence and the Female Imagination write by Paula Ruth Gilbert. This book was released on 2006-03-31. Violence and the Female Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.
The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination
The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination write by Maxine Lavon Montgomery. This book was released on 2021-06-17. The Postapocalyptic Black Female Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring postapocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition, this book extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation through an examination of futuristic imaginaries in representative twentieth and twenty-first century works of literature and expressive culture by Black women in an African diasporic setting. The author demonstrates the implications of Afro-futurist literary criticism for Black Atlantic literary and critical theory, investigating issues of hybridity, transcending boundaries, temporality and historical recuperation. Covering writers including Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward and Beyoncé, this book examines the ways Black women artists attempt to recover a raced and gendered heritage, and how they explore an evolving social order that is both connected to and distinct from the past.
CONTEXTUALISING THE ‘FEMALE IMAGINATION’: A STUDY OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S SHORT FICTION
CONTEXTUALISING THE ‘FEMALE IMAGINATION’: A STUDY OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S SHORT FICTION - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook CONTEXTUALISING THE ‘FEMALE IMAGINATION’: A STUDY OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S SHORT FICTION write by GEETA JANET DKHAR. This book was released on . CONTEXTUALISING THE ‘FEMALE IMAGINATION’: A STUDY OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S SHORT FICTION available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Endless Rapture
Endless Rapture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endless Rapture write by Helen Hazen. This book was released on 1983. Endless Rapture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women Talking
Women Talking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Talking write by Miriam Toews. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Women Talking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.” -Margaret Atwood, on Twitter "Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism, and, above all, forgiveness." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. While the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home, these women-all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they've ever known or should they dare to escape? Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
