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Subversive Intent Susan R. Suleiman

Subversive Intent By Susan R. Suleiman

Subversive Intent by Susan R. Suleiman

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In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers.

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Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics and the Avant-garde by Susan R. Suleiman

In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers.

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A compelling account of the way gender has shaped the historical avant-garde, above all in France. She investigates both how the material experience of gender informed men and women's participation in avant-garde movements and the use of gender in avant-garde representations. Her discussion is nuanced, careful to situate the problematic of gender and the avant-garde in its broader social and aesthetic contexts...It is clear that the book will continue to occupy an important place on the shelf of anyone studying the history and theory of the avant-garde both for its scholarship and for its fine close analyses of art and literature.--Margaret Cohen "Annals of Scholarship "

Table of Contents

Prologue - playing and modernity: pleasures of theory; metapolylogue - on playing and modernity. Part 1 A double margin - woman writers and the avant-garde in France: of margins and avant-gardes; the Surrealist subject; women in the history of Surrealism. Part 2 Aggressions and counteraggressions - readability in avant-garde fiction: reading and rupture; Robbe-Grillet, or, the readability of transgression; Maurice Roche - paradigm lost and found; self-reflexive afterthought. Part 3 Reading Robbe-Grillet - sadism and text in project pour une revolution a New York. Part 4 Transgression and the avant-garde - Bataille's "Histoire de l'oeil": pornography as textuality; pornography as "Reality"; feminist poetics and the pornographic imagination. Part 5 Love stories - women, madness, and narrative: mastery and transference - the significance of "Dora"; Breton, Charcot, and the spectacle of female otherness; Duras/Lucan - not knowing as entanglement. Part 6 The politics and poetics of female eroticism: equal rights, or, telling it with four-letter words; celebrating difference, or, writing (and reading) otherwise dreaming beyond the number two. Part 7 Feminist intertextuality and the laugh of the mother: parody and politics; parody, perversion, collage - Surrealists at play; daughers playing - some feminist rewritings and the mother; "The Hearing Trumpet" - Marian Leatherby and the holy grail; the laugh of the mother. Part 8 Feminism and postmodernism - in lieu of an ending: une histoire bien postmoderne; discourses on the postmodern and the emergence of feminist postmodernism; opposition in Babel? the political status of postmodern intertextuality; to market, to market - oppositional art in mass culture; of cyborgs and (other) "Women" - the politics of decentered subjects.

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CIN0674853849VG
9780674853843
0674853849
Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics and the Avant-garde by Susan R. Suleiman
Susan R. Suleiman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Harvard University Press
1992-05-01
294
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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