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Writing against a North American tradition that tends to categorize works as either experimental or political, Berry's monograph highlights both the aesthetic and feminist value of writing styles that make us uncomfortable-that make us experience the negative affect that they also represent ... She not only gives serious attention to a number of understudied works, but opens up a conversation between feminist political literary criticism and other criticism movements that have more explicitly embraced the negative. * Literary Research * [Berry's] book analyzes a myriad of diverse writers and their prose texts as they engage negative aesthetics for overtly political, dramatically feminist purposes in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France ... As we learn in this book, the nega-tive is not a negative term at all-certainly not for feminists or anyone who questions the false social ideologies of heterogeneity, its discourses, and its discontents. The negative is an aesthetic in that it is both reality and our survival strategy. It eschews political correctness, and it is a politi-cally potent, intellectually demanding act. * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature * The book offers some very well-organized and detailed readings. * Contemporary Women's Writing *

Writing against a North American tradition that tends to categorize works as either experimental or political, Berry's monograph highlights both the aesthetic and feminist value of writing styles that make us uncomfortable-that make us experience the negative affect that they also represent ... She not only gives serious attention to a number of understudied works, but opens up a conversation between feminist political literary criticism and other criticism movements that have more explicitly embraced the negative. * Literary Research *

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Ellen E. Berry is Professor of English and American Culture Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her books include Curved Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude Stein’s Postmodernism (1992) and (as co-author with Mikhail Epstein) Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (1999). She is editor of the journal Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge.

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