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Title:

Cross-gendered literary voices : appropriating, resisting, embracing / edited by Rina Kim and Claire Westall.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 243 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Point of view (Literature)
Male authors--Psychology.
Women authors--Psychology.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Point de vue (littérature).

Other Authors:

Kim, Rina.
Westall, Claire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Cross-Gendered Literary Voices PART I: EMPOWERING OR EFFACING THE VICTORIAN OTHER?Female Narrative Energy in the Writings of Dead White Males: Dickens, Collins and Freud Women Writing Women Writers "Everything depend[s] on the fashion of narration": Women Writing Women Writers in Short Stories of the Fin-de-siècle PART II: RESISTING AND EMBRACING THE OTHER VIA THE ABJECT ENTITY"These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here": Tidal Voicing and the Poetics of Home in James Joyce's UlyssesWhat Happens When a Transvestite Gynecologist Usurps the Narrator?: Cross-Gendered Ventriloquism in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood"Her speech a purely buccal phenomenon": Voice as a Lost Object in Samuel Beckett's WorksThe Engendered and Dis-engendered Other in Iris Murdoch's Early FictionPART III: GENDER AS PERFORMANCE AND THE VOCALIZATION OF TRANSGENDERED BODIES"His almost vanished voice": Gendering and Trans-Gendering Bodily Signification and the Power of the Voice in Angela Carter's The Passion of New EveTransvestic Voices and Gendered Performance in Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto Transgendered Bodies and Voices in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex and Rose Tremain's Sacred CountryPART IV: AUTHORITY AND ANXIETIES OF APPROPRIATION IN HISTORICAL NARRATIVESAuthenticity, Authority and the Author: The Sugared Voice of the Neo-Victorian Prostitute in The Crimson Petal and the White "Queering' the Stuttering in Sarah Waters" The Little StrangerConclusion: Crossings and Re-crossings BibliographyIndex.

Summary:

"This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0230299873 (hardback)
9780230299870 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)776773178

LCCN:

2012023369

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)