Feminists Reading Novels, Now, and Again, and Again.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- ROONEY, ELLEN
- Source
- Novel: A Forum on Fiction. Nov2017, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p441-451. 11p.
- Subject
- *LITERARY criticism
*FEMINIST literary criticism
*BLACK feminism
- Language
- ISSN
- 0029-5132
The author reflects on literary critic Sianne Ngai's argument about postmodern culture in her book "Our Aesthetic Categories." Topics discussed include complexities of work under neoliberalism as stressed by Ngai, contributions of feminist literary theory to novel theory, and view of professor Hazel Carby on black feminist theory.