Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration

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Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first collection of essays to focus solely on the writing of women associated with surrealism. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives, the essays in the volume bring this multifaceted oeuvre into dialogue with contemporary critical debates on gender and sexuality as well as anthropocentrism and the environment. -- .

Anna Watz is Senior Lecturer in English at Linkoeping University, Sweden -- .

'This book does not attempt to impose a harmonious, all-encompassing feminist perspective that would gloss over the complexities of being a 'woman writer' within the grand scheme of surrealism, but looks, rather, to highlight differences and ambivalences, enriching the discourse surrounding this literature. An enthralling and intensely intellectual investigation into surrealist women's writing, this study is of critical importance for literary scholars and admirers of surrealism as it offers a profound reconsideration of these ten authors.' French Studies 'The 11 essays in the collection look at the work of Claude Cahun, Lenora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Colette Peignot, Kay Sage, and Unica Zurn, among others. Beyond examining the women's literary work, the essays show how these writers' work informs contemporary discussion of gender, sexuality, ecocriticism, the Other, and the Anthropocene. Wetz's excellent introduction frames the questions and concerns surrealist women writers explored in their work.' CHOICE (Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.) -- .