Figuring the Woman Author in Contemporary Fiction

by Mary Eagleton

If the author is 'dead', if feminism is 'post-', why does the figure of the woman author keep appearing as a central character in contemporary fiction? She is concerned with ownership but, equally, with loss; determined to enter the cultural field but also rejecting that field; looking for control but subject to duplicity; seeking power alongside desire. Drawing on a diverse range of contemporary authors - including Atwood, Byatt, Brookner, Coetzee,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349509132
• ISBN13: 9781349509133
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"