Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde

by Susan Rubin Suleiman

Book Overview

With this important new book, Susan Suleiman lays the foundation for a postmodern feminist poetics and theory of the avant-garde. She shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor, has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists of this century. Focusing also on women's avant-garde artistic practices, Suleiman demonstrates how to read difficult modern works in a way that reveals their political as well as their aesthetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674853830
• ISBN13: 9780674853836
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"