Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory.

Greene, Gayle

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Publication Date: 1991

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Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory.

Greene, Gayle

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, v16 n2 p290-321 Win 1991

This essay concerns feminist fiction by Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Toni Morrison that utilizes memory as a means to liberation and explores this at the level of narrative form. In examining 1970s feminist fiction and metafiction, explores the importance of memory at particular cultural moments. (AF)

Descriptors: Change, Cultural Context, Feminism, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Memory, Narration, Novels, Political Influences, Twentieth Century Literature

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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