The Feminine "No!"
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The Feminine "No!"

Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

  1. 162 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Feminine "No!"

Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

About this book

The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates about changes to the literary canon. Todd McGowan argues that the dynamics of canon change, rather than being the isolated concern of literary critics, actually offer concrete insights into the source of social change. Through a deployment of psychoanalytic theory, McGowan conceives the rediscovery and subsequent canonization of previously forgotten literary works as recoveries of past traumas. As such, these rediscoveries call into question and disrupt not only the canon itself, but also the mechanisms of ideology, precisely because trauma is shown to be the key to radical social change. The book focuses on four of the most prominent rediscoveries in the canon of American literature: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper, " Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780791448748, 9780791448731
eBook ISBN
9780791491065
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. The Feminine “No!”
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Canon Wars and Psychoanalysis
  5. 1. The Canonical Unconscious
  6. 2. Dispossessing the Self: "The Yellow Wall-paper" and the Renunciation of Property
  7. 3. The Awakening of Desire, or, Why Edna Pontellier Isn't a Man
  8. 4. Acting without the Father: Charles Chesnutt's New Aristocrat
  9. 5. Liberation and Domination: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Evolution of Capitalism
  10. 6. Agency and the Traumatic Encounter: Politics after Poststructuralism
  11. Notes
  12. Index