Sexualizing Power in Naturalism

• Tác giả: Irene Gammel
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1552386316
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 813.52093538 American fiction in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: University of Calgary Press 1994
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 235898

Tóm tắt

This book sheds light on the function of female sexuality in a predominantly male genre: naturalist fiction. Gammel reveals that naturalism is frequently implicated in the very power structures it critiques. Reading European and North American naturalism through the lens of feminist and Foucaultian theories of power, Gammel argues that twentieth-century naturalism increasingly deconstructs itself in its depiction of sexuality, inevitably exposing the genre's internal ideological contradictions. The book makes a special contribution to Canadian studies.