Feminist Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Identities: Rewriting Mary Magdalene, Mother Ireland and Cu Chulainn of Ulster by Birgit Breninger (Hardcover, 2012)
Throughout the second half of the 20th century various societies were shaped by conflicting trends of globalization and nationalist resurgence, powerful surges of collective identities as well as fragmentation into individualistic subjects. Against this background of various socio-cultural movements aiming to transform established value systems, women poets and novelists set out to deconstruct dominant ways of perceiving and experiencing 'reality' and identities by raising their voices against demystification and powerlessness. This book analyzes what is termed by the author as 'deconstructive rewritings' in culturally relevant ways. Due to the specialist focus on the choice of 'reworked threads of mythical strands', an analysis referred to as mytho-literanalysis is introduced and deployed. By using what Barthes has termed the best weapon against myth, namely the mythification of myth in its turn, the women writers' rewritings embody the idea to tell the well-known stories so many times in so many different ways that one embraces and finally 'becomes' the plethora of stories and not the petrified reiteration of the mimicry of one popular version.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Ag
ISBN-13
9783631633557
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117522512
Product Key Features
Author
Birgit Breninger
Publication Name
Feminist Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Identities: Rewriting Mary Magdalene, Mother Ireland and Cu Chulainn of Ulster
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Zoology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
148mm
Item Weight
470g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Birgit Breninger
Topic
Literature, Beliefs
Country/Region of Manufacture
Switzerland
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