9780252027321 - The Woman in Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading by Gwin, Minrose C (17 results)

Condition: Fine. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, July 13 (SALE Item)* 232 pp., hardcover, inscribed by the author else fine in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is configured and experienced in narrative and how those dimensions can reshape the reader's imaginative encounters with questions of identity, location, and transformation.   Ranging widely among contemporary writers such as Joy Harjo, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Keri Hulme, Gcina Mhlope, and Marlen Haushofer, Gwin proposes the intersection of reading and space as a site for locating gender in specific social relations, geographies, and histories, as well as dislocating gender in terms of how it can be imagined. Like the transformed woman in the red dress of Harjo's poem "Deer Dancer," literature and the reading of it can create spaces of possibility, engagement, and danger leading into and out of physical, social, and historical constriction.   Graceful and impassioned, The Woman in the Red Dress offers important new approaches to narratives about father-daughter incest, stories that contaminate the myth of home as a safe space and map a geography of sexual violence, victimization, and survival. Gwin situates her analysis of fiction such as Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres within contemporary debates concerning survivor discourse, theories of domestic space, and issues of race and class. She also explores books--such as Hulme's The Bone People--that enter a murky and liminal queer space in which gender itself travels and the most claustrophic physical and social spaces can unexpectedly unhinge and open. Assaying the mysterious process by which readers are moved and re-moved by the stories they read, Gwin's provocative study links those narratives to questions of home and travel, place and displacement, materiality and metaphor, identity and imaginative flight.

Condition: as new. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 232 pp.Condition : fine. Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is configured and experienced in narrative and how those dimensions can reshape the reader's imaginative encounters with questions of identity, location, and transformation. Ranging widely among contemporary writers such as Joy Harjo, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Keri Hulme, Gcina Mhlope, and Marlen Haushofer, Gwin proposes the intersection of reading and space as a site for locating gender in specific social relations, geographies, and histories, as well as dislocating gender in terms of how it can be imagined. Like the transformed woman in the red dress of Harjo's poem "Deer Dancer", literature and the reading of it can create spaces of possibility, engagement, and danger leading into and out of physical, social, and historical constriction. Graceful and impassioned, "The Woman in the Red Dress" offers important new approaches to narratives about father-daughter incest, stories that contaminate the myth of home as a safe space and map a geography of sexual violence, victimization, and survival. Gwin situates her analysis of fiction such as Morrison's "The Bluest Eye", Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", Dorothy Allison's "Bastard out of Carolina", and Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" within contemporary debates concerning survivor discourse, theories of domestic space, and issues of race and class. She also explores books - such as Hulme's "The Bone People" - that enter a murky and liminal queer space in which gender itself travels and the most claustrophic physical and social spaces can unexpectedly unhinge and open. Assaying the mysterious process by which readers are moved and re-moved by the stories they read, Gwin's provocative study link Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780252027321. Keywords : ,

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, x + 222 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear only. Book is clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bright untorn dust jacket shows light creasing and a few scratches. -- This work is a hybrid exploration of literary theory, autobiography, and reader response, interweaving personal narratives with critical analyses of spatial metaphors in women's literature. Minrose C. Gwin posits space not as a static container but as a dynamic "swirl of social relations and productions" that intersects with narrative and gender, profoundly shaping the reader's experience. Through close readings of texts by Joy Harjo, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and others, Gwin illustrates how female characters navigate constricted, transformative, and often oppressive spaces - physical, cultural, and psychological. The "woman in the red dress" from Harjo's poem serves as a catalytic image: a figure whose presence disrupts and reconfigures the spaces around her, mirroring the disruptive power of literature on readers' perceptions of identity, history, and culture. Gwin's central argument - that reading is an immersive, often perilous "space travel" - underscores the emotional captivity of the reader, who, like the characters, must inhabit alien landscapes of trauma, resistance, and survival. Autobiographical interludes anchor the theoretical discussions, particularly in confronting themes like incest, patriarchal power, and racialized gender identities. By fusing critical theory with lived experience, Gwin reclaims space as a palimpsestic, mobile construct, challenging Bergsonian hierarchies that privileged time over space. The book's strength lies in democratizing literary engagement: texts become sites of traversal, where meaning is co-created by reader and narrative. Ultimately, The Woman in the Red Dress is less about the titular figure and more about how stories reterritorialize our understanding of self, gender, and cultural belonging.

Hardback. Condition: New. Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is configured and experienced in narrative and how those dimensions can reshape the reader's imaginative encounters with questions of identity, location, and transformation.   Ranging widely among contemporary writers such as Joy Harjo, Toni Morrison, Sandra Cisneros, Keri Hulme, Gcina Mhlope, and Marlen Haushofer, Gwin proposes the intersection of reading and space as a site for locating gender in specific social relations, geographies, and histories, as well as dislocating gender in terms of how it can be imagined. Like the transformed woman in the red dress of Harjo's poem "Deer Dancer," literature and the reading of it can create spaces of possibility, engagement, and danger leading into and out of physical, social, and historical constriction.   Graceful and impassioned, The Woman in the Red Dress offers important new approaches to narratives about father-daughter incest, stories that contaminate the myth of home as a safe space and map a geography of sexual violence, victimization, and survival. Gwin situates her analysis of fiction such as Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres within contemporary debates concerning survivor discourse, theories of domestic space, and issues of race and class. She also explores books--such as Hulme's The Bone People--that enter a murky and liminal queer space in which gender itself travels and the most claustrophic physical and social spaces can unexpectedly unhinge and open. Assaying the mysterious process by which readers are moved and re-moved by the stories they read, Gwin's provocative study links those narratives to questions of home and travel, place and displacement, materiality and metaphor, identity and imaginative flight.

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