Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting [Hardcover]

Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting,? and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.Preface Acknowledgements PART I: CONSUMING MEMORIES Remembering the Past, Manufacturing Memories: Contemporary Women's Rewriting and/as Cultural Memory PART II: FAIR USE En/gendering Cultural Memory: Rereading, Rewriting and the Politics of Recognition Women's Rewriting as Counter-memory: An ABC of 'Stolentelling' (Authorship, Branding, and Copyright) PART III: CULTURAL SCRIPTS Untold Stories: 'Writing Back' to Silence High Infidelity: Tradition, Rewriting and the Paradoxes of Decanonization PART IV: MYTHICAL RETURNS Winged Words: Women's Rewriting as Remythologizing Notes Bibliography Index

'Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting is a sophisticated study of the role of rewriting within contemporary feminist literature. With a tone that is often philosophical and yet carries a sound attentiveness to the particularities of individual works, this book provides a strong and individual contribution to make to the field. The discussion of the commoditisation of women's rewriting in the marketplace and the inherent conservatism of publishers and purchasers is handled with care and precision. This book is certain to have relevance to both researchers and students working on contemporary women's writing and twenty-first century writing more generally.'

- Dr Mark Llewellyn, University of Liverpool, UK; Consultant Editor to Neo-Victorian Studies and co-author (with Ann Heilmann) of Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-first Century, 1999-2009 (2010).

LIEDEKE PLATE is Assistant Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Chair of the Dutch Women's Studies Association.