This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media.Classical Narratology, an allegedly neutral descriptive system for features of narrative, has been replaced by a diverse set of theories which are attentive to the contexts in which narratives are composed and received. Issues of gender and sexuality have, nevertheless, been sidelined by new strands which consider, for example, cognitive, transmedial, national or historical inflections instead. Through consideration of texts including the MTV series Faking It and the papers of a nineteenth-century activist, Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative heeds the original call of feminist narratologists for the consideration of a broader and larger corpus of material. Through analysis of issues including the popular representation of lesbian desire, the queer narrative voice, invisibility and power in the digital age, embodiment and cognitive narratology, reading and racial codes, this book argues that a named strand of narrative theory which employs feminist and queer theories as intersectional vectors is contemporary and urgent.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.
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This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media.
Introduction: Futures for feminist and queer narratology Tory Young1. Queering narrative voiceSusan S. Lanser2. Rethinking the subject in feminist research: narrative personae and stories of ‘the real’ Maria Tamboukou3. ‘We fuck and friends don’t fuck’: BFFs, lesbian desire, and queer narrativesSam McBean4. A moving target – cognitive narratology and feminismKarin Kukkonen5. Invisibility and power in the digital age: issues for feminist and queer narratology Tory Young6. The unspeakable, the unnarratable, and the repudiation of epiphany in ‘Recitatif’: a collaboration between linguistic and literary feminist narratologiesRobyn Warhol and Amy Shuman
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ISBN
9780367681128
Publisert
2023-09-25
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Vendor
Routledge
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260 gr
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
112

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Biographical note

Tory Young teaches Contemporary and Modernist Literature at ARU, Cambridge, UK. She is currently writing a monograph about 21st-Century Love Stories, which reconsiders plot and desire in popular and literary fiction. She is the author of a practical guide for students Studying English Literature (CUP).