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, Lurie, LeGuin, Mich le Roberts, Shields, Spark, Weldon, Walker - this study explores the complexity and continuing fascination of this figure.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403903913
• ISBN13: 9781403903914
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.9"