The Disobedient Writer - 9780292790964

The Disobedient WriterWomen and Narrative Tradition\nAuthor(s): Nancy A. Walker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292790964, 978-0292790964\nSynopsis\nFor centuries, women who aspired to write had to enter a largely male literary tradition that offered few, if any, literary forms in which to express their perspectives on lived experience. Since the nineteenth century, however, women writers and readers have been producing \""disobedient\"" counter-narratives that, while clearly making reference to the original texts, overturn their basic assumptions.\n\nThis book looks at both canonical and non-canonical works, over a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres, that offer counter-readings of familiar Western narratives. Nancy Walker begins by probing women's revisions of two narrative traditions pervasive in Western culture: the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and the traditional fairy tales that have.