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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 March 2020
      16 April 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108779692
      9781108489911
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108779692
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 234 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature after 1945
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature after 1945
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
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    Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.

    Awards

    Winner, The BACLS Monograph Prize, The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

    Reviews

    ‘Jennifer Cooke’s Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity is itself an audacious addition to the theoretical literature about life writing, self-narrative, and queer and feminist literary theory.’

    Kate Drabinski Source: Biography

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