JOURNAL ARTICLE

An Embodied Feminist Poethics of Improper Speech in Atwood's Alias Grace and Christiansë's Unconfessed.

  • Published In: Gender Questions, 2023, v. 11, n. 2. P. 1 1 of 3

  • Database: Sociology Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ellis, Jeanne 3 of 3

Abstract

In this paper, I argue that the cross-fertilising entanglements of narrative/literature, theory, and embodiment that constitute Margaret E. Toye's concept of "narrative as embodied theory" in "Towards a Poethics of Love: Poststructuralist Feminist Ethics and Literary Creation" are especially appropriate to revisionary historical fiction written by women in which silenced histories of trauma are recovered and given voice. I refer to examples from Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1998) and Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006) as illustrations of what I term "an embodied feminist poethics of improper speech," a theoretical and methodological reconfiguration of Toye's terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Gender Questions. 2023/07, Vol. 11, Issue 2, p1
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:2309-9704
  • DOI:10.25159/2412-8457/10349
  • Accession Number:174737682
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