Resisting Bodies: The Negotiation of Female Agency in Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction

by Helga Druxes

Helga Druxes'study of the female protagonists in novels by German writer Monika Maron, British writers Margaret Drabble and Jean Rhys, and French writer Marguerite Duras brings together the work of four prominent contemporary women authors. In discussing the position of women in urban spaces from the point of view of feminist and cultural theory, Druxes combines anthropology and recent literary theory within the framework of cultural studies. She...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814325343
• ISBN13: 9780814325346
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 230 Pages