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623609
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Kaplan, Carla.
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| Title & Author
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The erotics of talk : : women's writing and feminist paradigms /\ by Carla Kaplan.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1996.
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x, 240 p. ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195099141 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780195099140 (acid-free paper)
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: 019509915X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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: 9780195099157 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-225) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: In Search of an Ideal Listener -- 1. Silence: Reading Feminist Readings: Recuperative Reading and the Silent Heroine of Feminist Criticism -- 2. Contracts: Recuperating Agents: Narrative Contracts, Emancipatory Readers, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 3. Romance: Girl Talk: Jane Eyre and the Romance of Women's Narration -- 4. Dialogue: "That Oldest Human Longing": The Erotics of Talk in Their Eyes Were Watching God -- 5. Exchange: "Somebody I Can Talk To": Teaching Feminism Thought: The Color Purple.
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"In this provocative rereading of the classic texts of the feminist literary canon, Carla Kaplan takes a hard look at the legacy of feminist criticism and argues that important features of feminism's own canon have been overlooked in the rush to rescue and identify. African-American women's texts, she demonstrates, often dramatize their distrust of their readers, their lack of faith in "the cultural conversation," through strategies of self-silencing and "self-talk." At the same time, she argues, the homoerotics of women's writing has too often gone unremarked. Not only does longing for an ideal listener draw women's texts into a romance with the reader, but there is an erotic excess which is part of feminist critical recuperation, itself." "Drawing on a wide range of resources, from sociolinguistics and anthropology to literary theory, Kaplan's highly readable study proposes a new model for understanding and representing "talk.""--BOOK JACKET.
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Jacobs, Harriet A., (Harriet Ann),1813-1897., Incidents in the life of a slave girl.
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Hurston, Zora Neale., Their eyes were watching God.
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Brontë, Charlotte,1816-1855., Jane Eyre.
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Walker, Alice,1944-Color purple.
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American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Women and literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Literary form.
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PS147.K37 1996
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| Parallel Title
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Women's writing and feminist paradigms
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