Feminist Poetics : Performance, Histories

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Title: Feminist Poetics : Performance, Histories
Description: Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the Governor murder stories, murders committed against white women and children by black men in Australia in 1900. This book is a feminist poetics for those who are engaged in the teaching of literacies, and in the making of Knowledge about literacies.
Authors: Terry Threadgold
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians--Historiography, Literature and history--Australia, Authorship--Sex differences, Women and literature--Australia--History, Australian literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Feminism and literature--Australia--History, Serial murders--Australia--Historiography, Intertextuality, Australian literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Literary form, Poetics, Literature--Philosophy
Categories: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women"s Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:Feminist Poetics in concerned with all of these questions, but also with the issue of rewriting an older poetics for what it does not say about the marginalisation of the feminine. The first half of the book traces the trajectory of a particular, feminine, academic subject learning to find her voice. The second half uses that differently disciplined voice to re-read the textual traces of the Governor murder stories, murders committed against white women and children by black men in Australia in 1900. This book is a feminist poetics for those who are engaged in the teaching of literacies, and in the making of Knowledge about literacies.
ISBN:9780415062916
9780415029391
9781134971435
9781134971428
9781134971404
9780203206201