Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism / / Ewa Płonowska Ziarek.
Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: On Loss, Invention, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Aesthetics
- Part I. Revolutionary Praxis and Its Melancholic Impasses
- 1. On Suffrage Militancy and Modernism Femininity and Revolt
- 2. Melancholia, Death of Art, and Women's Writing
- 3. Woolf's Aesthetics of Potentiality
- Part II. Female Bodies, Violence, and Form
- Introduction: Rethinking the Form/Matter Divide in Feminist Politics and Aesthetics
- 4. Abstract Commodity Form and Bare Life
- 5. Damaged Materialities in Political Struggles and Aesthetic Innovations
- Part III. Toward a Feminine Aesthetics of Renaissance
- 6. The Enigma of Nella Larsen Letters, Curse, and Black Laughter
- Notes
- Index