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Hace 22 horas · Let’s take a tour through these feminist historical novels that you’d like to recommend. Perhaps we could start with Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls, which is the opening of her ‘Women of Troy’ trilogy, a re-telling of the Iliad through the eyes of a Trojan captive.. Yes, it’s from the perspective of Briseis, the one-time queen of Troy and now the war bride of Achilles.
Hace 2 días · Her work has been influential in queer theory and feminist thought. 3.4 Roxane Gay (1974-) – “Bad Feminist” (2014) Critiqued contemporary feminism while embracing its core principles. Her essays cover a wide range of issues including race, gender, and popular culture, advocating for an inclusive and intersectional feminism.
Hace 3 días · Maya Angelou. American poet, memoirist, and actress. Also known as: Marguerite Annie Johnson. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Hace 2 días · Feminism. Atwood's work has been of interest to feminist literary critics, despite Atwood's unwillingness at times to apply the label 'feminist' to her works. Starting with the publication of her first novel, The Edible Woman, Atwood asserted, "I don't consider it feminism; I just consider it social realism."
Hace 1 día · Authors Le Guin describes as influential include Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Boris Pasternak, and Philip K. Dick. Le Guin and Dick attended the same high-school, but did not know each other; Le Guin later described her novel The Lathe of Heaven as an homage to him.
Hace 5 días · On Writing California Dreaming by Noa Silver. California Dreaming is, in many ways, a love letter both to the Bay Area and to the twenties, “that unmoored, tripped-out decade between childhood and adulthood.” The book started in the spring of 2018 with just one scene.
Hace 5 días · 11 Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" (1949) is a seminal work in feminist theory, analyzing the construction of women as the "Other" in society. 12 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath (1963) offers a poignant exploration of mental health and the pressures on women to conform to societal expectations.
