The Erotics of Talk - Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms

A rereading of the American feminist criticism of the past two decades and the literary canon which it has constructed as its foundation. It reads a group of works that have become feminist classics - Jane Eyre, The Yellow Wallpaper, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Their Eyes Are Watching God and The Colour Purple - focusing on how each work represents talk and how feminist criticism has talked about these representations, developing the paradigm of erotics of talk - the search for the ideal listener....