Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature - 9781138547971

Taylor & Francis

Identity and Form in Contemporary LiteratureAuthor(s): Ana Mara Snchez-Arce\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138547971, 978-1138547971\nSynopsis\nThis ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of the role of the author in the interpretation of literary texts, the ways in which writers bypass or embrace identity politics and the function of identity and the body in form. Essays tackle these issues from a number of positions, including identity categories such as (dis)ability, gender, race and sexuality, as well as questioning these categories themselves. Essayists look at both identity as form and form as identity.\n\nAlthough identity and form are both staples of current research on contemporary literature, t.