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Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory: Representing National Time

By Jane Elliott

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
0230605427, 9780230605428
Open Library ID
OL10194875M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2023070 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
225\236
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Offering a strikingly original treatment of feminist literature, Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory argues that feminist novels served as a means of narrating and negotiating the perceived decline of American progress after the 1960s. Elliott analyzes popular tropes ranging from the white middle class housewife trapped in endless domestic labor to the woman of color haunted by a traumatic past--exploring the way in which feminist narratives represented women as unable to access positive futures. In a powerful new reading of temporality in contemporary fiction, Elliott posits that feminism’s image of women trapped in time operated as a potent allegory for the apparent breakdown of futurity in postmodernity.

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