Travelling in Women’s History with Michèle Roberts’s Novels: Literature, Language and Culture

Author:   Maria Soraya Garcia-Sanchez
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9783034306270


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Travelling in Women’s History with Michèle Roberts’s Novels: Literature, Language and Culture


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Travelling in Women’s History with Michèle Roberts’s Novels: Literature, Language and Culture is a journey to discover Roberts’s work as a feminist writer, novelist and memoirist. An overall analysis and detailed overview of Michèle Roberts’s novels first provide the reader with a study of Roberts’s rewriting of stories that have been inspired by historical, mythological and religious women who gain a voice in her fiction. Not only will the content of Roberts’s novels be explored but also its connection to form, as this feminist writer has always linked body to language. Second, the book analyses personal and public discoveries in Roberts’s memoir, Paper Houses: A Memoir of the ‘70s and Beyond (2007). The personal, professional and political journeys the writer-protagonist strolls in London will be part of a feminist culture and language that the memoirist preserves in her autobiography. Finally, two conversations with Michèle Roberts from 2003 and 2010 are presented in a last chapter in order to illustrate Roberts’s arguments when writing as a woman.

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Author:   Maria Soraya Garcia-Sanchez
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9783034306270


ISBN 10:   303430627
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Michèle Roberts’s background – Michèle Roberts and writing novels – Pastiche and the concept of L’écriture féminine in Michèle Roberts – Feminism: women’s history – Michèle Roberts’s heroines – Michèle Roberts’s protagonists and their relationship with mothers: the conscious femininity – Sex and religion in Michèle Roberts’s novels – Body and language in Michèle Roberts’s work – Michèle Roberts’s memoir: walking as a woman flâneur – Paper Houses: a woman’s fictional memoir – Michèle Roberts’s personal and public Paper Houses – The structure of Roberts’s memoir: locations, anecdotes and form – History and culture in London: the 1970s and 1980s.

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M. Soraya García-Sánchez is a lecturer at the Faculty of English Studies at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she has taught language, culture and literature courses. She has published articles in Feminist Theology and Sincronía. Her research areas are focused on gender, women’s writing, literature, culture and language in contemporary contexts.

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