He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male TextMica Howe, Sarah Appleton Aguiar The essays in this volume demonstrate the range of revisioning of women's reinterpretations of patriarchal texts. Women's responses are reaching beyond the story and into the primal bases for narrative: the philosophies, theologies, psychology, politics, and archetypal geneses that comprise the origins of narrative itself. 'He Said, She Says' brings together myriad perspectives that cover such primal narratives as the Bible, the Torah, mythology, traditional literary texts, male depictions of female sexuality, patriarchal Marxism, American democracy, and multiculturalism. |
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Female Retellings of Jewish Tales | 23 |
Walking in My Body Like a Queen in Lee Smiths Fair and Tender Ladies | 42 |
The Metramorphosis of Hallowing the Hollow and Hollowing the Hallow | 57 |
Gloria Naylors Baileys Cafe and Western Religious Tradition | 91 |
Contemporary Women Engage the American | 106 |
Giving Voice to the Object | 128 |
Rewritten and Rewriting | 176 |
DisInheriting the Kingdom of Lear | 194 |
Bending Genre and Gender in AnnMarie MacDonalds Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet | 211 |
Henry Jamess and Jane Campions Portraits of a Lady | 221 |
Apocalyptic Discourse and Awakening from the Cuban Fantasy in Chely Limas Confesiones Noctumas | 241 |
Bharati Mukherjee and the Apocryphal Imagination | 253 |
Kathy Acker and the AvantGarde | 267 |
List of Contributors | 287 |
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Page 9 - Re-vision— the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction— is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
References to this book
Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination Conrad Ostwalt No preview available - 2003 |