The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature : Notes on a Wild Fluidity

Natalie Rose Dyer

ISBN 10: 3030598128 / ISBN 13: 9783030598129

Verlag: Springer International Publishing, 2020

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming amenstrual imaginary-a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women's creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice.The text addresses key arbiters of themenstrual imaginaryin a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of 'the blood jet', Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women's artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of theMedusa, theSphinx,Little Red Riding Hood,andThe Red Shoes,as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman's flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing andproblematic societal views of menstruation.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783030598129

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature : Notes on a Wild Fluidity
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3030598128
• ISBN-13: 9783030598129
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 19 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 19 mm
• Gewicht: 458 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a menstrual imaginary―a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women’s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the menstrual imaginary in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of ‘the blood jet’, Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women’s artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the Medusa, the Sphinx, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Red Shoes, as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman’s flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing andproblematic societal views of menstruation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Natalie Rose Dyer teaches creative writing and literary studies at Deakin University, Australia. Her poetry and essays appear in literary journals such as Meanjin Quarterly, Australian Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, The University of Canberra Vice-chancellors International Poetry Prize Anthologies, The Chiron Review, The Wisconsin Review, and more.