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Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the historical, linguistic, and culturally contextual breadth of this writing. It also highlights how the specifically surrealist poetics and politics of these writers' work intersect with and contribute to contemporary debates on, for example, gender, sexuality, subjectivity, otherness, anthropocentrism, and the environment. Drawing on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, the essays in the volume focus on the writing of numerous women surrealists, many of whom have hitherto mainly been known for their visual rather than their literary production. These include Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Kay Sage, Colette Peignot, Suzanne CĂ©saire, Unica ZĂŒrn, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, and Rikki Ducornet.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1ââThe dung beetleâs snowballâ: the philosophic narcissism of Claude Cahunâs essay-poetry
- 2âIdentity convulsed: Leonora Carringtonâs The House of Fear and The Oval Lady
- 3âRecasting the human: Leonora Carringtonâs dark exilic imagination
- 4âColette Peignot: the purity of revolt
- 5âSuzanne CĂ©saireâs surrealism: tightrope of hope1
- 6âKay Sage alive in the world
- 7âOutside-in: translating Unica ZĂŒrn
- 8âIthell Colquhounâs experimental poetry: surrealism, occultism, and postwar poetry
- 9âLeonor Finiâs abhuman family
- 10ââOpen sesameâ: Dorothea Tanningâs critical writing
- 11âMagic language, esoteric nature: Rikki Ducornetâs surrealist ecology
- Index