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Article: The Problem of Politics in Feminist Literary Criticism: Contending Voices in Two Contemporary Novels.(Critical Essay)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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- June 22, 2000
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As Judith Fetterley asserts, "Literature is political" (xi). Today it seems apparent to many critics that a body of words is not isolated but relates to the larger culture. However, politics in fiction is not easily characterized. Even if an author's political stance seems we'll defined, I argue that how a writer makes meaning renders difficult any deep understanding of a text's political content. Politics exists thematically in a text, but it also is deeply embedded in language. The claim that literature is political seems to indicate that what we read makes a difference in our lives, even though attempts to promote a literary canon of culturally relevant works have been ...
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