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These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and the unconscious reveal some of the least inhibited masculine fantasies. The first resistance to the male surrealists' projection of the female figure arose in the writings and paintings of marginalized woman artists and writers associated with Surrealism. The essays in this collection explore the complexity of these women's works, which simultaneously employ and subvert the dominant discourse of male surrealists.Mary Ann Caws is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the GraduateCenter of the City University of New York. Rudolf Kuenzli is Professor of English and ComparativeLiterature and Director of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa. Gwen Raaberg isDirector of the Center for Women's Resources and Research at Western Michigan University.The Essays: What Do Little Girls Dream Of: The Insurgent Writing of Gisèle Prassinos. Finding What YouAre Not Looking For. From Déjeuner en fourrure to Caroline: Meret Oppenheim's Chronicle ofSurrealism. Speaking with Forked Tongues: "Male" Discourse in "Female" Surrealism? Androgyny: Interview with Meret Oppenheim. The Body Subversive: Corporeal Imagery in Carrington, Prassinos, andMansour. Identity Crises: Joyce Mansour's Narratives. Joyce Mansour and Egyptian Mythology. In theInterim: The Constructivist Surrealism of Kay Sage. The Flight from Passion in Leonora Carrington'sLiterary Work. Beauty and/Is the Beast: Animal Symbology in the Work of Leonora Carrington, RemedioVaro, and Leonor Fini. Valentine, André, Paul et les autres, or the Surrealization ofValentine Hugo. Refashioning the World to the Image of Female Desire: The Collages of AubeElli oui t. Eileen Agar. Statement by Dorothea Tanning.
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Sixteen illustrated essays focus on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded women primarily as objects of masculine desire or fear. Originally published (1990) as the journal Dada/Surrealism, no.18. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Product Details
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Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in theGraduate School of the City University of New York and Co-director of its Henri Peyre FrenchInstitute. She is the author, editor, or translator of more than forty books in the fields of poetry and the avant-garde.
Rudolf Kuenzli is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of theInternational Dada Archive at the University of Iowa.
Gwen Raaberg is Director of the Center for Women's Resources and Research at Western MichiganUniversity.