{"product_id":"surrealist-womens-writing-a-critical-exploration-9781526167156","title":"Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurrealist women’s writing: A critical exploration\u003c\/i\u003e is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers’ work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne Césaire, Unica Zürn, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book does not attempt to impose a harmonious, all-encompassing feminist perspective that would gloss over the complexities of being a ‘woman writer’ within the grand scheme of surrealism, but looks, rather, to highlight differences and ambivalences, enriching the discourse surrounding this literature. An enthralling and intensely intellectual investigation into surrealist women’s writing, this study is of critical importance for literary scholars and admirers of surrealism as it offers a profound reconsideration of these ten authors.'\u003cbr\u003eFrench Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The 11 essays in the collection look at the work of Claude Cahun, Lenora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Colette Peignot, Kay Sage, and Unica Zürn, among others. Beyond examining the women’s literary work, the essays show how these writers’ work informs contemporary discussion of gender, sexuality, ecocriticism, the Other, and the Anthropocene. Wetz’s excellent introduction frames the questions and concerns surrealist women writers explored in their work.'\u003cbr\u003eCHOICE\u003cbr\u003e(Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book has much to offer to animal studies, queer studies, and ecocritical and ecofeminist studies... and it will enrich scholarship on auto\/biography and confessional writing... It will expand and enliven the category of women’s modernism. In spite of its focus on text, the collection will leave its readers with some startling images. But mostly, in ways both serious and playful, Surrealist Women’s Writing will show the imaginative gains to be made by breaking down barriers—of both gender and genre—and daring to stand out.'\u003cbr\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Watz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 ‘The dung beetle’s snowball’: the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahun’s essay-poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFelicity Gee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Identity convulsed: Leonora Carrington’s \u003ci\u003eThe House of Fear \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Oval Lady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna Watz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Recasting the human: Leonora Carrington’s dark exilic imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeannette Baxter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Colette Peignot: the purity of revolt\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Richardson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Suzanne Césaire’s surrealism: tightrope of hope \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKara M. Rabbitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Kay Sage alive in the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatharine Conley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Outside-in: translating Unica Zürn\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Allmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Ithell Colquhoun’s experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark S. Morrisson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 Leonor Fini’s abhuman family\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan P. Eburne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 ‘Open sesame’: Dorothea Tanning’s critical writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatriona McAra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 Magic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornet’s surrealist ecology\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKristoffer Noheden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515888734551,"sku":"9781526167156","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526167156.jpg?v=1745428162","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/surrealist-womens-writing-a-critical-exploration-9781526167156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}