{"product_id":"narrative-deconstructions-of-gender-in-works-by-audrey-thomas-daphne-marlatt-and-louise-erdrich-9781571132673","title":"Narrative Deconstructions of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich","description":"\u003cb\u003eStudy of three North American women novelists combining the standpoints of gender studies and narratology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy analyzing the works of Thomas, Marlatt, and Erdrich through the lenses of subjectivity, gender studies, and narratology, Caroline Rosenthal brings to light new perspectives on their writings. Although all three authors write metafictions that challenge literary realism and dominant views of gender, the forms of their counter-narratives vary. In her novel \u003ci\u003eIntertidal Life,\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas traces the disintegration of an identity through narrative devices that unearth ruptures and contradictions in stories of gender. In contrast, Marlatt, in \u003ci\u003eAna Historic,\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the regulatory fiction of heterosexuality. She offers her protagonist a way out into a new order that breaks with the law of the father, creating a \"monstrous\" text that explores the possibilities of a lesbian identity.  In her tetralogy of novels made up of \u003ci\u003eLove Medicine, Tracks, The Beet Queen,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bingo Palace,\u003c\/i\u003e Erdrichresists definite readings of femininity altogether. By drawing on trickster narratives, she creates an open system of gendered identities that is dynamic and unfinalizable, positing the most fragmented worldview as the most enduring. By applying gender and narrative theory to nuanced analysis of the texts, Rosenthal's study elucidates the correlation between gender identity formation and narrative. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Caroline Rosenthal is Professor and Chair of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Her book \u003ci\u003eNarrative Deconstructions of Gender\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Camden House in 2003.","brand":"Caroline Rosenthal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280454136059,"sku":"9781571132673","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571132673.jpg?v=1772484885","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/narrative-deconstructions-of-gender-in-works-by-audrey-thomas-daphne-marlatt-and-louise-erdrich-9781571132673","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}