Subversive intent : gender, politics, and the avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. London Harvard University Press 1990ISBN:- 0674853849
- 840.9 SUL
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers.
Bibliography: p253-268. - Includes index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Prologue: Playing and Modernity
- Pleasures of Theory Metapolylogue: On Playing and Modernity
- A Double Margin: Women
- Writers and the Avant-Garde in France Of Margins and Avant-Gardes
- The Surrealist Subject Women in the History of Surrealism
- Aggressions and Counteraggressions: Readability in Avant-Garde Fiction
- Reading and Rupture
- Robbe-Grillet, or, the Readability of Transgression
- Maurice Roche: Paradigm Lost and Found
- Self-Reflexive Afterthought Reading
- Robbe-Grillet: Sadism and Text in Projet pour une revolution a New York
- Transgression and the Avant-Garde: Bataille's
- Histoire de l'oeil
- Pornography as Textuality
- Pornography as "Reality" Feminist
- Poetics and the Pornographic
- Imagination Love Stories: Women, Madness, and Narrative
- Mastery and Transference: The Significance of Dora Breton, Charcot, and the Spectacle of Female
- Otherness Duras/Lacan: Not Knowing as Entanglement
- The Politics and Poetics of Female Eroticism
- Equal Rights, or, Telling It with Four-Letter
- Words Celebrating Difference, or, Writing (and Reading) Otherwise
- Dreaming beyond the Number Two Feminist
- Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother
- Parody and Politics Parody, Perversion, Collage: Surrealists at Play
- Daughters Playing: Some Feminist Rewritings and the Mother
- The Hearing Trumpet: Marian Leatherby and the Holy Grail
- The Laugh of the Mother Feminism and Postmodernism: In Lieu of an Ending Une Histoire Bien Postmoderne
- Discourses on the Postmodern and the Emergence of Feminist
- Postmodernism Opposition in Babel?
- The Political Status of Postmodern Intertextuality
- To Market, to Market: Oppositional Art in Mass
- Culture Of Cyborgs and (Other) "Women": The Politics of Decentered Subjects
- Notes Selected
- Bibliography
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Suan Rubin Suleiman, a professor of French at Harvard University, fled from Budapest as a child in 1949. She later returned to Hungary and wrote Budapest Diary as a result. Suleiman has also written feminist texts such as The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives and Subversive Intent: Gender Politics and the Avant-Garde.(Bowker Author Biography)