Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration

Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers' work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.

Drawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne C駸aire, Unica Z?n, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.

Author: Anna Watz
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 10/18/2022
Series: Manchester University Press
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781526167156