The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature: Notes on a Wild Fluidity – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030598136, 3030598136

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• ISBN-10: 3030598136
• ISBN-13:  9783030598136
• Author: Natalie Rose Dyer
  

This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a menstrual imaginary—a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women’s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of the menstrual imaginary in a series of letters, including Sylvia Plath the initiator of ‘the blood jet’, Hélène Cixous the pioneer of a conceptual red ink and the volcanic unconscious, and Luce Irigaray the inaugurator of women’s artistic process relative to a vital flow of desire based in sexual difference. The text also undertakes provocative against-the-grain re-readings of the Medusa, the Sphinx, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Red Shoes, as a means of affirmatively and poetically re-imagining a woman’s flow. Natalie Rose Dyer argues for re-envisioning menstrual bleeding and creativity in reaction and resistance to ongoing andproblematic societal views of menstruation.

Table contents:

Part I. What Is the Menstrual Imaginary?

1. Want to Start a Pussy Riot?

2. Revisioning the Wild Zone

3. Dear Sylvia: The Blood Jet Is Poetry

Part II. The Menstrual Imaginary Against-the-Grain

4. Dear Hélène: White Ink Versus Red Ink

5. Dear Julia: Writing Beyond Abjection

6. Dear Luce: An/Other Becoming Woman

Part III. Re-Imagined and New Menstrual Tales

7. Dear Marlene: Re-Telling The Red Shoes

8. New Menstrual Tales: The Vulva Ring

9. Conclusion: The Menstrual Future

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