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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls biomythography, which combines history, biography, and myth. [ 1 ] In the text, Lorde writes that "Zami" is "a Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers", noting that Carriacou is the ...
Feminism. Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and ideology of feminism to critique the language of literature. This school of thought seeks to analyze and describe the ways in which literature portrays the narrative of male domination ...
Orlando: A Biography online. Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend. It is arguably one of her most popular novels, a history of English literature in satiric form.
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
An early American example of a mass-market romance was Kathleen E. Woodiwiss' The Flame and the Flower (1972), published by Avon Books. [5] This was the first single-title romance novel to be published as an original paperback in the US. [5] Nancy Coffey was the senior editor who negotiated a multi-book deal with Woodiwiss. [5]
Chick lit. Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, [1] the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers, [2] while writers and critics have rejected its inherent sexism. [3] Novels identified as chick lit typically address romantic relationships, female friendships ...
The Emulation, Sarah Fyge (1719) The Woman's Labour, Mary Collier (1739) [18] Letters from a Peruvian Woman, Françoise de Graffigny (1747) The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1756) An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles, Mary Leapor (1763) Je ne sçai quoi: or, A collection of letters, odes, &c., Never before published.
t. e. Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political, economic, and social rights for women. It often addresses the roles of women in society particularly as regarding status, privilege, and power – and generally portrays the ...