The Not So Blank «Blank Page»
The Politics of Narrative and the Woman Narrator in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Novel
©2007
Monographs
XII,
150 Pages
Summary
A fascinating and underexplored feature of the English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel is that, whether written by man or woman, the «female»-narrated text codes and thematizes narrative travail. Female self-telling in these works is impelled and accompanied by psychic, rhetorical, even physical pain. This book focuses on this phenomenon, beginning with a non-essentialized definition of a «woman’s text.» Thorell Porter Tsomondo offers a fresh and useful frame of reference for understanding the tradition – present from the origins of the novel – of narrative from a marginalized position, a position instructed not just by gender but by class, colonial and postcolonial politics, and the exigencies of the narrative terrain itself.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 150
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820476490
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Roman Erzählerin Geschichte 1700-1900 Gender Postcolonialism Narratology Colonialism Voice Erzähltechnik Englisch
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XII, 150 pp.
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