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Alison Light - Inside History : From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing

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Alison Light - Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781474481557
  • ISBN-10: 1474481558
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publish Date: October 2021
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.16 pounds
  • Page Count: 244

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