Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

by Ewa Ponowska Ziarek and Ewa Ponowska Ziarek

Book Overview

Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231161484
• ISBN13: 9780231161480
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"