Women's experimental writing negative aesthetics and feminist critique - Berry, Ellen E. (London Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
Introduction : situating negative aesthetics -- Apocalyptic feminism : negative aesthetics in Valerie Solanas's SCUM manifesto -- Kathy Acker's fatal strategies -- "The remnant is the whole" : history, trauma, and the politics of absence in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Horrors of power : abjection and the "monstrous-masculine" in Chantal Chawaf's Redemption -- Suspending gender : the politics of indeterminacy in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the body -- Becoming-girl/becoming-fly/becoming-imperceptible : Gothic posthumanism in Lynda Barry's Cruddy : an illustrated novel -- Conclusion : from SCUM to Cruddy and beyond.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Women authors, American; Feminism in literature; Aesthetics in literature; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism