TY - GEN T1 - Alison Light -- Inside history : from popular fiction to life-writing T2 - The feminist library A1 - Light, Alison, 1955- LA - English PP - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1292707137 AB - A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's workProvides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readersOffers a way into a variety of texts and genres - including popular fiction, drama, film - as well as single authors, united by a lively and readable feminist approachExtends current thinking on national identity and Englishness from a writer who helped open these fieldsSpeaks to the new and growing academic interest in 'life-writing'Includes shorter pieces which also encapsulate complex arguments as well as examples of original life-writing by the authorIncludes an autobiographical introduction which contextualises and historicises the author's work and reflects on itAlison Light - Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction. CN - PN98.W64 L542 2022 SN - 9781474481564 SN - 1474481566 SN - 9781474481571 SN - 1474481574 SN - 9781474481557 SN - 1474481558 KW - Feminist literary criticism. KW - Women authors : History. KW - Feminist theory. KW - Critique féministe. KW - Écrivaines : Histoire. KW - Théorie féministe. KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. KW - Feminist literary criticism KW - Feminist theory KW - Women authors KW - History ER -