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Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich
2003
Overview
By analyzing the works of Thomas, Marlatt, and Erdrich through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings to light new perspectives on their writings. Although all three authors write metafictions that challenge literary realism and dominant views of gender, the forms of their counter-narratives vary. In her novel 'Intertidal Life', Thomas traces the disintegration of an identity through narrative devices that unearth ruptures and contradictions in stories of gender. In contrast, Marlatt, in 'Ana Historic', challenges the regulatory fiction of heterosexuality. She offers her protagonist a way out into a new order that breaks with the law of the father, creating a \"monstrous\" text that explores the possibilities of a lesbian identity. In her tetralogy of novels made up of 'Love Medicine', 'Tracks', 'The Beet Queen', and 'The Bingo Palace', Erdrich resists definite readings of femininity altogether. By drawing on trickster narratives, she creates an open system of gendered identities that is dynamic and unfinalizable, positing the most fragmented worldview as the most enduring. By applying gender and narrative theory to nuanced analysis of the texts, Rosenthal's study elucidates the correlation between gender identity formation and narrative. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor and Chair of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Her book 'Narrative Deconstructions of Gender' was published by Camden House in 2003.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer,Camden House,Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Subject
/ American literature in English
/ Canada
/ Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
/ Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
/ English & American Literature
/ Erdrich, Louise -- Technique
/ History
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
/ Marlatt, Daphne. Ana historic
/ Thomas, Audrey, 1935- Intertidal life
/ Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
/ Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
1571136274, 9781571136275, 1571132678, 9781571132673
