Book contents
- Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Autobiography as Feminist Praxis
- Chapter 2 Ugly Audacities in Auto/biography
- Chapter 3 Stripping Off for the First Time
- Chapter 4 Breaking the Binaries
- Chapter 5 The Dangers of Audacity
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
The New Audacity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2020
Book contents
- Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Autobiography as Feminist Praxis
- Chapter 2 Ugly Audacities in Auto/biography
- Chapter 3 Stripping Off for the First Time
- Chapter 4 Breaking the Binaries
- Chapter 5 The Dangers of Audacity
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the introduction I define the term ‘new audacity’ as the recent refusal of shame, silence, and a boldness in tackling difficult topics in life-writing by feminists. I introduce the authors I will be studying, define feminism for the project, and discuss the history of experimental feminist life-writing and new audacity’s precurssors. I also show how new audacity writing is different to French autofiction, new narrative, and the new sincerity, and provide a chapter summary.
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- Contemporary Feminist Life-WritingThe New Audacity, pp. 1 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020