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100 1 $aDowling, Finuala,$d1962-
245 10 $aFay Weldon's fiction /$cFinuala Dowling.
260 $aMadison [N.J.] :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$c©1998.
300 $a194 pages ;$c25 cm
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500 $aEnlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Africa, 1995, originally presented under the title: A critical appraisal of Fay Weldon's fiction.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 159-190) and index.
505 0 $aSisterhood and solidarity: The fat woman's joke; Down among the women; Female friends -- Housewives, whores, phantoms, and feminists: Remember me; Little sisters; Praxis -- "The m(o)ther within": Puffball; The president's child; The life and loves of a she-devil -- "Towards a humorous view of the universe": The shrapnel academy; The heart of the country; The hearts and lives of men -- How many women can you fit into one body? From The rules of life to Splitting.
530 $aAlso issued online.
520 $aFinuala Dowling provides an account of Weldon's fiction, from The Fat Woman's Joke to Splitting, and shares her delight in the narrative and thematic subversions she discovers in her study of these works. The book focuses on the disobedient female protagonists - madwomen and criminals, outcasts and she-devilswho are also the putative "authors" of Weldon's fictions. Dowling examines the hilarious narrative effects created by these marginal characters/narrators, seeing them as feminist strategies that enhance Weldon's gynocentric themes: single parenthood, sisterhood, reproduction, motherhood, sex, and marriage.
520 8 $aThis study raises several issues of general relevance to contemporary writing and criticism. The role of the media in presenting both author and oeuvre, the position of the woman writer vis-a-vis feminism, the confrontation of feminism and postmodernism, the question of popular versus high art forms, and the emergence of the author as public oracle are considered in relation to Weldon's considerable literary output.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aDowling, Finuala, 1962-$tFay Weldon's fiction.$dMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©1998$w(OCoLC)607094963
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