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This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Temporal Politics
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Feminism as Static Time
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Feminism as Futurity
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"By charting the modes of temporality structuring post-1960s women's popular fiction, Elliott offers an illuminating way of articulating the narratives of second-wave feminism to evolving conceptions of capitalist America. Her argument that these narratives are, first and foremost, national allegories gives them a refreshing intelligibility and historical agency. It's the kind of argument with which, whether or not they agree with her, future generations of scholars will need to reckon." - Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University and author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
"In this impressive debut, Jane Elliott revisits a fascinating passage in recent American culture, when feminism could advance through popular fiction and critical theory alike. She examines a series of novels both famous and forgotten, unfolding their allegorical layers to show how they speak directly to the changing contours of domination and liberation in women s lives. The book offers timely lessons, not only about the renewable resources of popular cultural forms, but also about the value of allegorical reading for contemporary critical practice." - Richard Dienst, Department of English, Rutgers University
About the author
JANE ELLIOTT is Lecturer of English at University of York, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory
Book Subtitle: Representing National Time
Authors: Jane Elliott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612808
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jane Elliott 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60542-8Published: 21 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37292-8Published: 21 July 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61280-8Published: 09 June 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 225
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Gender Studies, North American Literature