Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction

by Ellen G. Friedman (Editor), Miriam Fuchs (Editor)

These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Marguerite Young, Eva Figes, Joyce Carol Oates, and Marguerite Duras. "Friedman and Fuchs demonstrate the breadth of their research, first in their introduction to the volume, in which they outline the history of the reception of women's experimental fiction, and analyze and categorize the work not only of the writers to whom essays are devoted but of a number of others, too; and second in an extensive and wonderfully useful bibliography."--Emma Kafalenos, The International Fiction Review "After an introduction that is practically itself a monograph, eighteen essayists (too many of them distinguished to allow an equitable sampling) take up three generations of post-modernists."--American Literature "The editors see this volume as part of the continuing feminist project of the recovery and foregrounding of women writers.' Friedman and Fuchs's substantive introduction excellently synthesizes the issues presented in the rest of the volume."--Patrick D. Murphy, Studies in the Humanities
Originally published in 1989.
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Genres: Nonfiction, Criticism

325 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1989

Reviews

[Nathan "N.R." Gaddis]

A PreView ; or, List me a List, Most Kindly.
Now Addend’d ; Cb’low
(future occasional Floats caused by further such addend’ing ; always at Review’s Bottom). [Float Re: add'l authors by Ali, beginning with del Valle]


Selected List of Women Experimentalists ; First Generation ( -1930)
Dorothy M. Richardson
Gertrude Stein
Virginia Woolf

Selected List of Women Experimentalists ; Second Generation (1930-60)
Djuna Barnes
Jane Bowles
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Anna Kavan (Helen Ferguson, H. W. Edmunds)
Anaïs Nin
Jean Rhys

Selected List of Women Experimentalists ; Third Generation (1960- )
Kathy Acker
Laurie Anderson
Christine Brooke-Rose
Gabrielle Burton
Angela Carter
Maxine Chernoff
Laura Chester
Susan Daitch
Lydia Davis
Millicent Dillon
Harriet Doerr
Margaret Mitchell Dukore
Eva Figes
Kathleen Fraser
Madeline Gins
Jaimy Gordon
Barbara Guest
Bertha Harris
Marianne Hauser
Lyn Hejinian
Fanny Howe
Jill Johnston
Gayl Jones (also Gayle?)
Elaine Kraf
Rhoda Lerman
Bernadette Mayer
Deena Metzger
Ursule Molinaro
Toni Morrison
Joyce Carol Oates
Georgiana Peacher
Jayne Anne Phillips
Constance Pierce
Carlene Hatcher Polite
Ann Quin
Marilynne Robinson
Joanna Russ
Eve Shelnutt
Penelope Shuttle
Susan Sontag
Lynne Tillman
Marguerite Young
Pamela Zoline


Selected List of Women Experimentalists ; In Translation
Marguerite Duras
Nathalie Sarraute
Monique Wittig


Recommended reading/reference for an overview of a not frequently acknowledged literary tradition. Women. Writing. Experimental. Fiction. That’s a Four=Fold.


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A :: No. Of the third gen above listed, not=all get attention in the essays collected herein.

Q :: ----------------?
A :: Yes. Each name above is accompanied by a select=bibliography through 1989.

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A :: Indeed. A great deal has occurred since 1989. Basically an entire Wall fell, Egg-&-All.

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A :: True. The gr db is a wreck. For instance, Ms. Richardson has at least three author profiles. If there exist better profile=links for any of the above authors, please to inform.

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A :: Look™Inside™Abel™ @amazon☂



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NOW Addend’ing ; AKA, a Peanut’s Gallery
see threads below for more ausführlichen forms of these Addend’s.


Add’ bye Ali :: LInKS HErE (auch, this list’s anna=tations).
Kay Boyle
George Egerton
Eimear McBride
June Arnold
Carol Emshwiller
Daphne Marlatt's
France Daigle
Janet Frame
Christine Schutt
Olive Moore
Gail Scott's
Sue Thomas
Hilda Hilst
Lucy Corin
Cathy Stonehouse
Stacey Levine
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Can Xue
Silvina Ocampo
Grace Krilanovich
Bev Jafek
Anne Germanacos
Maude Hutchins
Amelia Gray
Emily Holmes Coleman
Julieta Campos
Gisela Elsner
Ingeborg Bachmann
Hélène Cixous
Ewa Kuryluk
Erin Mouré (or Erin Moure)
Leonora Carrington
Gellu Naum
Elfriede Jelinek
Jan Ramjerdi
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Mina Loy
Rosamel del Valle
Nelly Kaplan
Ilse Aichinger
Danute Kalinauskaite
Giedra Radvilaviciute
Mercè Rodoreda
Gisèle Prassinos
Inga Abele
Christine Montalbetti
Penny Simpson
Ornela Vorpsi
Noëlle Revaz
Christina Hesselholdt
Tiina Raevaara
Susana Medina


Add’end by MJ :: ’is links ‘ere.
Cris Mazza
Rikki Ducornet
Rosalind Belben
Janice Galloway
Marie Redonnet
Irmtraud Morgner

[MJ Nicholls · Rating 3 out of 5]

A valuable reference book and mini-manifesto on all things female and experimental up to 1989. The editors’ impassioned essay that opens the volume is the finest thing here, alongside Brooke-Rose’s ‘Illiterations’ and Larry McAffrey’s ‘The Artists of Hell’ on Kathy Acker. The rest is of varying interest and tends towards the tediously academic, and some of the authors chosen for discussion are eye-rolling (Joyce Carol Oh-Noates and Marguerite Drearass), otherwise the choices are to be commended.