Alison Light - Inside History: From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing

Alison Light - Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction.

Author: Alison Light
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 07/17/2023
Series: Feminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781474481724