The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition

by Nancy A. Walker

Book Overview

For centuries, women who aspired to write had to enter a largely male literary tradition that offered few, if any, literary forms in which to express their perspectives on lived experience. Since the nineteenth century, however, women writers and readers have been producing "disobedient" counter-narratives that, while clearly making reference to the original texts, overturn their basic assumptions.

This book looks at both canonical and non-canonical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292790961
• ISBN13: 9780292790964
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"