Description: Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue List of Abbreviations Part One - Producing Woman 1. From Russia with Love: Zoo, or Letters Not about Love Historical Background and Theoretical Coordinates Generic Reaccentuation and Innovation in Zoo Shklovsky's Addresses: Dialogic Contestation The Production of Woman Elsa Triolet's Letters in Zoo 2. Framing Lolita: Is There a Woman in the Text? Episolarity in Lolita Literature as Social Change or Aesthetic Bliss Reading Dialogically: Lolita 's Other Analogues Is There a Woman in the Text? 3. Dangerous Liasons: Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse and Jacques Derrida's The Post Card The Production of the Text The Deconstruction of Story and Plot The Deconstruction of Character and Identity The Role of the Addressee The Production of Woman Feminist Critiques of Barthes and Derrida Part Two - Women's Productions 4. The Golden Notebook : Anna Wulf's Schizoanalysis Sexuality, Sexual Politics, and the Displacement of Identity Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents Global Politics and the Social Genesis of Psychosis Lessing's Critique of the Realistic Novel 5. Constructing Otherness: Struggles of Representation in The Color Purple Epistolary Precursors Slave Narratives as Generic Predecessors Constructing Otherness by Gender and Tribe Walker's Vision of History and Utopia Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple 6. Twenty-first Century Epistolarity in The Handmaid's Tale Masculine Writing/Feminine Speech: Atwood's Episolary Antecedents Docile Bodies: An Anatomy of Ideology Epilogue Index

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