The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives

by Molly Hite

Overview

According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their implications than the dominant modes of fictional experimentation characterized as postmodernist. In The Other Side of the Story, Hite makes the point that these innovations, which distinguish the genre she calls contemporary feminist narrative, are more radical precisely because their context is the critique of a culture and a literary tradition apprehended as profoundly masculinist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801421648
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	08/25/1989
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Molly Hite is Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon and the novels Breach of Immunity and Class Porn.

Editorial Reviews

Hite’s inclusion of a chapter on Alice Walker (which addresses Walker’s intertextual relation to Zora Neale Hurston) multiplies and complicates the category of other insofar as it assumes female characters of color as the subject of postmodern fictions. Hite does an excellent job of making readers aware of the fact that postmodern feminist critics are not always white, or even always women.

SubStance - Frances Bartkowski

A study of the radical innovations in narrative form attempted by a number of influential contemporary women fiction writers--notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood. First published by Cornell U. Press in 1989. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Hite's inclusion of a chapter on Alice Walker (which addresses Walker's intertextual relation to Zora Neale Hurston) multiplies and complicates the category of other insofar as it assumes female characters of color as the subject of postmodern fictions. Hite does an excellent job of making readers aware of the fact that postmodern feminist critics are not always white, or even always women.

--Frances Bartkowski "SubStance"

From the Publisher

"Woolf’s Ambiguities leaves me with a much enriched perspective both on Woolf’s feminism and on certain aspects of her stylistic experimentation. Molly Hite’s insights are striking, and this book will have a strong place in Woolf studies."

Lisa Ruddick