
Male Rage Female Fury
Gender and Violence in Contemporary American Fiction
Marilyn Maxwell(Author)
University Press of America
Published on 26. September 2000
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-7618-1803-8 (ISBN)
Description
In four chapters, each dedicated to an experimental American novelist of the postmodern period, Male Rage Female Fury investigates what happens when novels that have defied traditional literary conventions such as temporal chronology, refuse to break with traditional gender-based stereotypes. The result, Maxwell argues, is an ambiguity or "internal tension" that may eventually produce more misogynistic images within the texts. Central to the study is an analysis of the violence, male and female initiated, in the works of the minimalists Barthelme and Didion, and the mythicists Pynchon and Morrison.
Reviews / Votes
Critiques the silenced, violently oppressed women that postmodern authors-with the clear exception of Morrison-often do not take seriously. * American Literature *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-1803-8 (9780761818038)
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Person
Marilyn Maxwell is an English Teacher at Hewlett High School in New York.
Content
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments; Introduction Chapter 2 Donald Barthelme Chapter 3 Joan Didion Chapter 4 Thomas Pynchon Chapter 5 Toni Morrison Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index