The Need for Fantasy as Dialogic Space in the Postmodern Feminist British Novel

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Dept. of English Yazd University

10.29252/kavosh.2004.2306

Abstract

The vital impact of feminism on philosophy, literature and criticism began to be acknowledged particularly, in the works of British women novelists of the sixties. The reaction was to the masculine ego-centric texts of the male mainstream writers. British postmodern feminist writers were, thus, impelled to seek a productive space for experimental forms of discourse. They attempted to propose and practice a radically different mode of communication with genuinely new alternatives from realism to fantasy. The present essay traces the British women novelists of the sixties and the forms of writing that they have formed. These writings allow a substantive remodeling of the female consciousness, fighting against fixity of forms to rebuilding new possibilities in feminist discourse.
 

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