1st Edition

Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative

Edited By Tory Young Copyright 2021
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media. Classical Narratology, an allegedly neutral descriptive system for features of narrative, has been replaced by a diverse set of theories which are attentive to the contexts in which narratives are composed and received. Issues of gender and... Read more

Introduction: Futures for feminist and queer narratology

Tory Young

1. Queering narrative voice

Susan S. Lanser

2. Rethinking the subject in feminist research: narrative personae and stories of ‘the real’

Maria Tamboukou

3. ‘We fuck and friends don’t fuck’: BFFs, lesbian desire, and queer narratives

Sam McBean

4. A moving target – cognitive narratology and feminism

Karin Kukkonen

5. Invisibility and power in the digital age: issues for feminist and queer narratology

Tory Young

6. The unspeakable, the unnarratable, and the repudiation of epiphany in ‘Recitatif’: a collaboration between linguistic and literary feminist narratologies

Robyn Warhol and Amy Shuman

Biography

Tory Young teaches Contemporary and Modernist Literature at ARU, Cambridge, UK. She is currently writing a monograph about 21st-Century Love Stories, which reconsiders plot and desire in popular and literary fiction. She is the author of a practical guide for students Studying English Literature (CUP).