Collusion and Resistance

Download or read book Collusion and Resistance written by Kerstin W. Shands and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes explore the potential for feminist critique offered by these genres, critique of patriarchal ideologies as well as formal features, and demonstrate how gendered hierarchies are unsettled but not entirely transcended. Thus the resistance against traditional genre properties creates new spaces for women writers, while the collusion with existing forms inscribes these women writers in the literary tradition at large. Together with the students engaged in this project, the scholars represented in this anthology have embarked upon a conceptual voyage of discovery