Engendering the Subject: Gender and Self-Representation in Contemporary Women's FictionSUNY Press, 1991年1月1日 - 248 頁 Robinson sets up a dialogue between feminist critical theory and contemporary women's fiction in order to argue for a new way of reading the specificity of women's writing. Through theoretically informed readings of novels by Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, and Gayl Jones, the author argues that female subjectivity is engendered in discourse through the woman writer's strategic engagement in representational systems that rely on a singular figure of Woman for coherence. Through this engagement, women's self-representation emerges as a process through which women take up multiple and contradictory positions in relation to different hegemonic discursive systems, and through which they engender themselves as subjects. Finally, Engendering the Subject suggests how women's fiction can provide a model for a feminist practice of reading that would simultaneously work against the historical containment of Woman, and for the empowerment of women as subjects of cultural practices. |
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Repetition and Resistance in Doris Lessings Children of Violence | 31 |
Gender and the DeStructuring of Marthas Quest | 37 |
Gender and the Production of Subjectivity | 50 |
Gendered Address and Marthas SelfRepresentation | 58 |
Angela Carter and the Circus of Theory Writing Woman and Womens Writing | 79 |
The Affirmative Woman and the Feminist | 82 |
Mimicry Contradiction and the Subject of Feminism | 92 |
Gender and the Postmodern Narrative | 100 |
Were all consequences of something Cultural Mythologies of Gender and Race in the Novels of Gayl Jones | 137 |
Slavery and the Cultural Production of the Black Woman | 140 |
Black Female Subjectivity and the Politics of Heterosexuality | 150 |
Excess as Subversion | 168 |
On Representation and Self Representation | 189 |
Notes | 195 |
Bibliography of Works Cited | 227 |
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