Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde

by Susan Rubin Suleiman

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With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde. She shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor, has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists of this century. Focusing also on women's avant-garde artistic practices, Suleiman demonstrates how to read difficult modern works in a way that reveals their political as well as their aesthetic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674853830

ISBN13:9780674853836

Release Date:May 1990

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences World Literature

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