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American literature --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History --- English literature --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 1900-1999 --- Women in literature --- American literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century --- Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Feminist fiction - History and criticism. --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century

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Michael analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction. While much has been written on various aspects of postmodernism and postmodern fiction and of feminism and feminist fiction, very little attention has been given to the postmodern aesthetic strategies that surface in post-World War II feminist fiction. Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse examines ways in which many widely read and acclaimed novels with feminist impulses engage and transform subversive aesthetic strategies usually associated with postmodern fiction to strengthen their feminist political edge. The author discusses many examples of recent feminist-postmodern fiction, and explores in greater depth Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. She shows that feminist-postmodern fiction's emphasis on the material historical situation--the link to activist politics and commitment to enacting concrete changes in the world, and thus the need to reach a large reading public--often results in a blending and transformation of postmodern and realist aesthetic forms. Moreover, feminist fiction uses deconstructive strategies not only to disrupt the status quo but also to create a space for reconstruction, particularly of recreating new forms of female subjectivities and feminist aesthetics.

Feminism and literature --- Feminisme en literatuur --- Femmes et littérature --- Féminisme et littérature --- Post-modernisme (Littérature) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Postmodernisme (Literatuur) --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Vrouwen en literatuur --- Women and literature --- English fiction --- American fiction --- Feminist fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History --- Lessing, Doris May, --- Piercy, Marge. --- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, --- Carter, Angela, --- History and criticism. --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Great Britain --- 20th century --- Piercy, Marge, --- English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century --- Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century --- American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Feminist fiction - History and criticism --- Feminism and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century --- Lessing, Doris May, - 1919-2013 - Golden notebook --- Piercy, Marge, - 1936- - Woman on the edge of time --- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, - 1939- - Handmaid's tale --- Carter, Angela, - 1940-1992 - Nights at the circus