Market and Nonconsumer Narratives

doi:10.1017/CHO9781316050859.034

29 - Market and Nonconsumer Narratives

From the “Levity of Being” to Abjection

from Part IV - Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015

Beatriz González-Stephan and

Carolyn Fornoff

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Ileana Rodríguez and

Mónica Szurmuk

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Ileana Rodríguez: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk: Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina

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Summary

Approaching the archive of fictions produced by women writers in the twenty-first century as a system alleviates the limitations of generational criticism, particularly because a large cohort of writers born in the 1940s and 1950s remain highly visible in the present-day literary scene. By observing the coexistent group of women publishing united by a literary landscape that is increasingly global, subject to the market, and integrated with new technologies, one can trace an ever-expansive map in which certain symptoms recurrently surface. This chapter "symptomatic" or "axiomatic" texts that operate as a representative of certain tendencies of the archive. Through the hermeneutic of the close-up, it sketches out several salient tendencies of nonconsumer narrative. In this sense, the texts examined in the chapter are only examples and indicators of the vast complexity of the constellation of women's writing produced during the last two decades.

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Anglophone Caribbean Francophone writing female rebellion twentieth-century Caribbean women writers Sexuality twenty-first century Caribbean women writers

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Information: The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 486 - 503

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781316050859.034 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2015

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