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The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature
Sarah Appleton Aguiar
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Description for The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature
Paperback. Focusing on the traits and types of guises usually associated with the "bitch" character in literature (evil stepmothers, village gossips, sinful sirens and so on), this book argues that, after a notable absence from the feminist writing of the 1960s and '70s, the bitch is coming back. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Although the ""bitch"" has always commanded a prominent spot in popular culture - television, movies, art - she virtually disappeared from the work of the second wave of feminist writers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now, announces Sarah Appleton Aguiar, the bitch is back, returned once more to cultural centre stage in the world of serious literature. Feminist writers such as Mary Gordon and Alice Walker, to name only two, felt obligated to subvert literary misrepresentations of females as dimensionless, to refute preconceptions of objectified characters, and, of paramount importance, to create memorable women full of complexity and ... Read more
Although the ""bitch"" has always commanded a prominent spot in popular culture - television, movies, art - she virtually disappeared from the work of the second wave of feminist writers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now, announces Sarah Appleton Aguiar, the bitch is back, returned once more to cultural centre stage in the world of serious literature. Feminist writers such as Mary Gordon and Alice Walker, to name only two, felt obligated to subvert literary misrepresentations of females as dimensionless, to refute preconceptions of objectified characters, and, of paramount importance, to create memorable women full of complexity and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809323623
SKU
V9780809323623
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About Sarah Appleton Aguiar
Sarah Appleton Aguiar is an assistant professor of English at Murray State University, where she teaches women's literature and contemporary literature.
Reviews for The Bitch is Back: Wicked Women in Literature
Aguiar accurately perceives that contemporary women writers are reclaiming and celebrating a figure that both literary history and conventional literary criticism have regarded as negative: the woman who is willfully and unapologetically 'bad' by societal standards and who, in her opposition to conventional approved female behavior, manifests an individual strength which she can share with others. - Nancy A. Walker, ... Read more