TY - BOOK ID - 11108122 TI - The feminine "no!" : psychoanalysis and the new canon PY - 2001 SN - 0791448746 0791448738 9780791448731 9780791448748 0791491064 9780791491065 PB - Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - 82:396 KW - 82:159.9 KW - Literatuur en feminisme KW - Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse KW - American fiction KW - Canon (Literature) KW - Feminism and literature KW - Feminist fiction, American KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Psychological fiction, American KW - History and criticism. KW - 82:159.9 Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse KW - 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme KW - Canon (Literature). KW - Classics, Literary KW - Literary canon KW - Literary classics KW - Best books KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - Chesnutt, Charles W. KW - Chopin, Kate, KW - Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, KW - Hurston, Zora Neale. KW - English KW - American Literature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American feminist fiction KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - American psychological fiction KW - American literature KW - History. KW - Women authors UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11108122 AB - The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates about changes to the literary canon. Todd McGowan argues that the dynamics of canon change, rather than being the isolated concern of literary critics, actually offer concrete insights into the source of social change. Through a deployment of psychoanalytic theory, McGowan conceives the rediscovery and subsequent canonization of previously forgotten literary works as recoveries of past traumas. As such, these rediscoveries call into question and disrupt not only the canon itself, but also the mechanisms of ideology, precisely because trauma is shown to be the key to radical social change. The book focuses on four of the most prominent rediscoveries in the canon of American literature: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper," Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. ER -