Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: New Materialist Methodologies for Critical Thinking [Hardcover]

What can feminist literature actuallydo? How can it affect the world? Does it have the power to change the oppressive structures that it opposes? Drawing on three of the fundamental wellsprings of feminist theory  genealogies, methodologies, and politics Feminist Literature in the Makingargues that it can.

A new, materialist perspective, brought to bear on figures like Woolf, Morrison and Atwood, demonstrates how feminist literature can provide a methodology for social transformation. Through techniques like diffractive reading, queering time, and using 'bits and pieces' to break through grand narratives, this book offers a wealth of opportunities to put its methods of literary critique into practice. In defiance of the edificial insistence of the Western canon, these practices of these methods reveal new ways of reading as a practice of continual textual construction, understanding how texts are created and then how to recreate them. With this concept, literary artifacts can become everyday artifacts  not only entanglements between theory, methodology and politics, but tools for feminist interventions and social transformation.

Beatriz Revelles-Benaventeis a Professor of English and German Philologies at the University of Granada, Spain.A very pertinent contribution which engages Feminist New Materialisms and Literary Studies. The concepts of literature as in the making and everyday use are a must in the current (and urgent) transformation of Literary Studies from within philological fields to sociological areas rather connected with the social sciences and the critical humanities. Adelina S?nchez Espinosa, Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, University of Granada, Spain

Introduction

Chapter 1: Feminist Literary Genealogies. Re-writing the Contemporary Literary Object
Chapter 2:This is not a story to pass on: Queering me with Toni Morrison
Chapter 3: Contemporary Literature asl#&