Subversive strategies

Fictional alternatives by women writers

Bibliographic Data

ID20156290
AuthorsPamela Ryan (University of South Africa, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume4
Issue1
Pages86-103
Publication date1988-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387
PublisherUnisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA)
DOI10.1080/02564718808529854
OpenAlexW2027034601
LanguageEN
References cited14

This article explores the ways in which certain recent texts by women writers construct oppositional strategies to the conventional depiction of gender in narrative. These texts are examined as acts of revision and, more radically, of subversion. The focus is on the way certain writers in the twentieth century revise prevailing paradigms, in particular, the paradigm of heterosexuality which has traditionally been the central relationship informing the conventional novel. In searching for new ways of presenting fiction that undermine the romantic closure of novels ending in marriage or death, women writers are following new directions in fiction

Aesthetics · Art · Depiction · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Subversion · Computer Science · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

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