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Article: Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of Michele Roberts.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Since the publication of her first novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts continually has returned in her fiction to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space. Roberts uses her own experience as a woman of two cultures (English and French), as well as fictionalized histories of other women, to inform powerful narratives in which the borders of history, culture, and identity are blurred and rewritten. This piece will address the extent to which such fictions engage with contemporary debates about the fragmentation and reconstruction of feminine identity. While certain French feminist theorists have come under fire for a depoliticized and ...
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Article: Books: Pride and prejudice as Darcy dates again Michele ...
The Independent - London;
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... ... things improve. I stopped wanting to top myself and screamed for joy. Perhaps now he would get out into the sunshine and learn to have a sensual, good time. Michele Roberts's `The Mistressclass' is published next month by Little, Brown
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