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03086aam a2200385 i 4500 001 C6BE6636652711EBAC2324F85BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210202012344 008 200107t20202020enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019050315 020 $a 1108489915 020 $a 9781108489911 035 $a (OCoLC)1156441213 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN491.2 C66 2020 100 1 $a Cooke, Jennifer, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Contemporary feminist life-writing : $b the new audacity / $c Jennifer Cooke, Loughborough University. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a ix, 226 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The new audacity -- 1. Autobiography as Feminist Praxis ; New Audacity in the Writing of Rape -- 2. Ugly Audacities in Auto/Biography ; Genius, Betrayal, and Writer's Block -- 3. Stripping Off for the First Time ; Recasting Vulnerability in the Writing of Hetero-Sex and Desire -- 4. Breaking the Binaries ; New Audacity in the Writing of Trans Lives -- 5. The Dangers of Audacity ; Vanessa Place's Contradictory Feminism -- Afterword: After Audacity. 520 $a "Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's selfauthorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Autobiography $x Feminist authors. 650 0 $a Autobiography $x Women authors. 650 0 $a Feminism in literature. 650 0 $a Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Cooke, Jennifer, 1977- $t Contemporary feminist life-writing $d New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. $z 9781108779692 $w (DLC) 2019050316 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205012158.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021638.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C6BE6636652711EBAC2324F85BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search