Women's experimental writing negative aesthetics and feminist critique Berry, Ellen E. creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2016 monographic eng remote 1 online resource "Women's Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry. These writers all share a commitment to combining extreme content with formally radical techniques in order to enact varieties of gender, sex, race, class and nation-based experience that, they suggest, may only be "represented" accurately through the experimental unmaking of dominant structures of rationality. Ellen Berry extends the anti-social negative critique predominant in queer studies by offering an alternative archive of feminist negative literary practices and explores the consequences of joining an anti-social critique with radical innovations in literary and cultural forms. She argues that the radical aesthetic practices the authors employ are central to the emergence of contemporary Western feminisms and in doing so rectifies a critical neglect of contemporary experimental writing by women, especially in politicized forms, within the still-emerging postmodern canon."--Bloomsbury Publishing Cover -- Half Title -- Also by -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Situating Negative Aesthetics -- 1 Apocalyptic Feminism: Negative Aesthetics in Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto -- In the time of SCUM -- Reading SCUM Manifesto -- SCUM's feminist affects -- 2 Kathy Acker's Fatal Strategies -- Acker's anti-.narratives -- Acker's abject female bodies -- Acker's fatal strategies -- 3 "The Remnant Is the Whole" -- The longing in the faces of the lost -- She speaks her -- 4 Horrors of Power: Abjection and the "Monstrous-. Masculine" in Chantal Chawaf's Redemption -- Immersed in abjection -- Why approach abjection? -- 5 Suspending Gender -- Reading indeterminacy -- Reading indeterminately? -- What's indeterminacy got to do with it? -- What's loss got to do with it? -- 6 Becoming-. Girl/. Becoming-. Fly/. Becoming-. Imperceptible -- Becoming cruddy in the days of the father -- Becoming-.fly -- Becoming-.imperceptible -- Conclusion: From SCUM to Cruddy and Beyond -- Bibliography -- Index. Ellen E. Berry. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index. Women authors, American Feminism in literature Aesthetics in literature American literature 20th century History and criticism Écrivaines américaines Féminisme dans la littérature Esthétique dans la littérature Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique Literary theory Feminism & feminist theory Philosophy: aesthetics Literary studies: from c 1900 LITERARY CRITICISM Women Authors Aesthetics in literature American literature Feminism in literature Women authors, American 1900-1999 fast PN56.F46 809.89287 9781474226417 1474226418 9781474226424 1474226426 9781474226394 1474226396 147422640X 9781474226400 9781474226400 9781474226417 CodeMantra http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474226394?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections N$T 160322 20250218182642.4 in00005617663 eng