Contemporary Feminist Life Writing
The New Audacity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nell Osborne (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpab024 |
| OpenAlex | W3179645564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life? (2013) recounts a series of sexual experiences with older men – consensual encounters guided by the men’s violent and humiliatory fantasies. If, as Jennifer Cooke writes, what is “indisputably clear is that Calloway is fascinated by how men respond to female vulnerability” (117), her other motivations remain audaciously unclear, inciting what Cooke calls the “quagmire of feminist feuding” (129). In Contemporary Feminist Life Writing, Cooke suggests that we make more room for “experience as experiment” (131) within feminist literary studies. Audacity is framed as a literary strategy and a provocative aesthetic response to perceived sexual and gendered transgression. In Cooke’s original readings, audacity emerges as an expansive mode of criticism that motivates literary experimentation. Cooke considers “how and why work is audacious within the context of its production” (17), attending to experiences of rape, sex work, failure, friendship and
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Criticism · Expansive · Friendship · Human sexuality · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Irish and British Studies · Gender Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |