This book is an action : feminist print culture and activist aesthetics

• Tác giả: Cecilia Konchar Farr, Jaime Harker
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0252039805
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810.9352042 American literature in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
• Mô tả vật lý: x, 250 pages ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 153413
• Chủ đề: 1. American literature--Women authors; 2. Books and reading--History--20th century--United States; 3. Feminism and literature--History--20th century--United States; 4. Publishers and publishing--History--20th century--United States; 5. Second-wave feminism--United States; 6. Women--Intellectual life--20th century--United States; 7. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; 8. LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; 9. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

"The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave"-- Provided by publisher.