Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Genres: Feminism, Theory, Essays

253 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1985

Reviews

[El]

I wrote this title/author down in the back of my copy of The Handmaid's Tale during my second reading of the book when a professor referenced it, and I suppose I should find a copy finally.

(Actually what I wrote down was Beyond the Ending by R. DuPlessi Bleau, but that doesn't seem to be a real thing at all, so this is as good a guess as any. Good job, College-El.)

[Jonna Higgins-Freese]

Explores the ways in which women writers constructed narrative after the masculinist romance and quest tropes had been critiqued. A nice, solid, academic summary but not what I was looking for.

_Writing Beyond the Ending_, which cites women's stories that can be found by "writing beyond the ending" as "travels of adventure, professional ambition, lesbian love, adulterous passion, and unconventional parenting."