The Not So Blank «Blank Page»: The Politics of Narrative and the Woman Narrator in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Novel
A fascinating and underexplored feature of the English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel is that, whether written by man or woman, the female-narrated text codes and thematizes narrative travail. Female self-telling in these works is impelled and accompanied by psychic, rhetorical, even physical pain. This book focuses on this phenomenon, beginning with a non-essentialized definition of a woman's text. Thorell Porter Tsomondo offers a fresh and useful frame of reference for understanding the tradition - present from the origins of the novel - of narrative from a marginalized position, a position instructed not just by gender but by class, colonial and postcolonial politics, and the exigencies of the narrative terrain itself.
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The Not So Blank «Blank Page»: The Politics of Narrative and the Woman Narrator in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Novel
A fascinating and underexplored feature of the English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel is that, whether written by man or woman, the female-narrated text codes and thematizes narrative travail. Female self-telling in these works is impelled and accompanied by psychic, rhetorical, even physical pain. This book focuses on this phenomenon, beginning with a non-essentialized definition of a woman's text. Thorell Porter Tsomondo offers a fresh and useful frame of reference for understanding the tradition - present from the origins of the novel - of narrative from a marginalized position, a position instructed not just by gender but by class, colonial and postcolonial politics, and the exigencies of the narrative terrain itself.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780820476490 |
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| Publisher: | Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2007 |
| Pages: | 150 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.02(d) |
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