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Subverting Patriarchy : Feminism and Fantasy in the Novels of Irmtraud Morgner - Alison Lewis

Subverting Patriarchy

Feminism and Fantasy in the Novels of Irmtraud Morgner

By: Alison Lewis

Hardcover | 1 September 2010

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One of the most innovative examples of the use of fantastic forms in recent feminist fiction is the work of East German author Irmtraud Morgner. Little known outside German-speaking countries, her unique blend of fantastic realism testifies both to the subversive nature of a literature of fantasy and the transgressive power of a feminist writing practise. This book looks at the way Morgner uses fantasy both as a form of feminist critique of the history of patriarchy and as an anticipatory device to test the viability of feminist alternatives. Compensatory rather then escapist, in Morgner's writing the fantastic strives to make visible those aspects of female culture and women's experience previously suppressed by the dominant culture of patriarchy. The disruption caused to the social order by the intrusion of the fantastic provides the impetus for a radical investigation of the ideology of gender underpinning the dominant Enlightenment discourses on the nature of science, history and rationality.
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"By evoking an impressive array of literary-historical, semiotic, social, feminisst, and Marxist perspectives, Lewis has produced an innovative and insightful reading of Morgner's work. The wealth of material displayed here will surely prove invaluable for future Morgner scholarship. ...this book is not only highly readable but also makes Morgner's work mre accessible to an English-speaking audience." --The German Quarterly

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