Dyer The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature

Notes on a Wild Fluidity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-59813-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender

This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a  menstrual imaginary —a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women’s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the  menstrual imaginary  in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of ‘the blood jet’, Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women’s artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the  Medusa , the  Sphinx ,  Little Red Riding Hood,  and  The Red Shoes,  as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman’s flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing andproblematic societal views of menstruation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dyer, Natalie Rose

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: What is the Menstrual Imaginary?.- Introduction: Want to Start a Pussy Riot?.- Chapter One: Revisioning the Wild Zone.- Chapter Two: Dear Sylvia; The Blood Jet is Poetry.- Part II: The Menstrual Imaginary Against-the-Grain.-  Chapter Three: Dear Hélène; White Ink vs Red Ink?.- Chapter Four: Dear Julia; Writing Beyond Abjection.- Chapter Five: Dear Luce; An/Other Becoming Woman.- Part IV: Re-Imagined and New Menstrual Tales.- Chapter Six: Dear Marlene; Re-Telling The Red Shoes.- Chapter Seven: New Menstrual Tales; The Vulva Ring.- Conclusion: The Menstrual Future.

Über Autor(innen)

Natalie Rose Dyer teaches creative writing and literary studies at Deakin University, Australia. Her poetry and essays appear in literary journals such as  Meanjin Quarterly ,  Australian Poetry ,  Cordite Poetry Review ,  Mascara Literary Review ,  The University of Canberra Vice-chancellors International Poetry Prize Anthologies ,  The Chiron Review ,  The Wisconsin Review,  and more.