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About the product 245 x 170 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. (x) + 402; line drawings; photographs. Near-fine condition."The Eastern Cape is a province of great natural beauty, historical interest and tourist potential, and it has evoked a wealth of literary responses. A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape includes poems and prose extracts from imaginative and personal writings and introduces some 80 writers from different eras and backgrounds. Material is arranged regionally, allowing one to travel by car or in the mind across the varied terrain of the Eastern Cape, exploring cities, towns, coast and countryside, and discovering the different aspects of places through writers'eyes." Jeanette Eve: A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape. Places and the Voices of Writers

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "In these intricately woven, theoretically rich and subtle essays, Lidia Curti re-reads a diverse range of texts narrated by women in a variety of media. She deploys the interplay between genres and gender to disclose women narrating both the power of the female imaginary and the poetical and political reach of the voices, bodies and histories which sustain them." "--Stuart Hall" Exploring women's narratives from an innovative feminist perspective, Female Stories, Female Bodies combines theory and textual commentary in a wide-ranging interrogation of representation and identity, gender and genre. Cultural critic Lidia Curti takes us through a diverse range of texts in a broad spectrum of media and genres, drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, postmodern, and postcolonial theory in a challenging and rigorous discussion of such themes as hybridity and monstrosity, the male and female gaze, melancholia, desire, and paranoia. From Angela Carter and Toni Morrison to Jeanette Winterson and Jane Bowles, from daytime t.v. to Shakespearean drama, Curti examines variegated "textualities" in search of the "spaces and times" that narrative occupies in women's lives. Following de Certeau's dictum that "our stories order our world, providing the mimetic and mythical structures for experience," she argues that women must retrace their way in the interminable plurality of female narrative texts as a strategy for resisting the "official" closure of female identity. Female Stories, Female Bodies takes us on such a journey, bringing the body of female narrative to bear on the lived experiences of women everywhere. Features Summary In seven essays analyzing contemporary strands in women's narratives, Curti (English, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) explores the seams between feminist theory and postmodernism... Author Lidia Curti Publisher New York University Press Release date 19980201 Pages 304 ISBN 0-8147-1572-9 ISBN 13 978-0-8147-1572-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "In these intricately woven, theoretically rich and subtle essays, Lidia Curti re-reads a diverse range of texts narrated by women in a variety of media. She deploys the interplay between genres and gender to disclose women narrating both the power of the female imaginary and the poetical and political reach of the voices, bodies and histories which sustain them." "--Stuart Hall" Exploring women's narratives from an innovative feminist perspective, Female Stories, Female Bodies combines theory and textual commentary in a wide-ranging interrogation of representation and identity, gender and genre. Cultural critic Lidia Curti takes us through a diverse range of texts in a broad spectrum of media and genres, drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, postmodern, and postcolonial theory in a challenging and rigorous discussion of such themes as hybridity and monstrosity, the male and female gaze, melancholia, desire, and paranoia. From Angela Carter and Toni Morrison to Jeanette Winterson and Jane Bowles, from daytime t.v. to Shakespearean drama, Curti examines variegated "textualities" in search of the "spaces and times" that narrative occupies in women's lives. Following de Certeau's dictum that "our stories order our world, providing the mimetic and mythical structures for experience," she argues that women must retrace their way in the interminable plurality of female narrative texts as a strategy for resisting the "official" closure of female identity. Female Stories, Female Bodies takes us on such a journey, bringing the body of female narrative to bear on the lived experiences of women everywhere. Features Summary In seven essays analyzing contemporary strands in women's narratives, Curti (English, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) explores the seams between feminist theory and postmodernism... Author Lidia Curti Publisher New York University Press Release date 19980201 Pages 304 ISBN 0-8147-1573-7 ISBN 13 978-0-8147-1573-4