The Erotics of Talk : Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms
A rereading of the American feminist criticism of the past two decades and the literary canon which it has constructed as its foundation. It reads a group of feminist classics focusing on how each work represents talk and how feminist criticism has talked about these representations
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (251 pages)
9780195344578, 9781280528262, 019534457X, 1280528265
466428540
Contents; Introduction: In Search of an Ideal Listener; In Search of an Ideal Listener; Theorizing Cultural Conversation; The Ethics of Feminist Criticism; Listening to Women's Writing; The Erotics of Talk; Stipulations: "Can We Talk?"; I: THE POLITICS OF RECUPERATION; 1 silence: Reading Feminist Reading: Recuperative Reading and the Silent Heroine of Feminist Criticism; 2 contracts: Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; II: THE EROTICS OF TALK; 3 romance: Girl Talk: Jane Eyre and the Romance of Women's Narration. 4 dialogue: "That Oldest Human Longing": The Erotics of Talk in Their Eyes Were Watching God5 exchange: "Somebody I Can Talk To": Teaching Feminism Through The Color Purple; Conclusion: Auditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y