A Feminist Mythology
Author | : Chiara Bottici |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781350095984 |
ISBN-13 | : 1350095982 |
Rating | : 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of “womanhood” through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.