Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction
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Introduction
If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field; looking for control but subject to duplicity; seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee, Lurie, LeGuin, Michèle Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.
Keywords
fiction Romanticism women
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502215
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-50913-3
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-50221-5
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