All These Things I've Called Lover

Résumé du livre

This collection of short stories is about women who wander through unexpected geographic and psychological terrains. These women, like Gertrude Stein's Ida, "stray to stray." The stories engage fairy tale and myth as they create their own world where narratives of women who walk too far into the woods, live too much alone, and drift too often according to impulse are not cautionary tales, but rather invitations to adventure. In the tradition of experimental women writers such as Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, H.D. and more recently, Jayne Anne Phillips and Carole Maso, the dissertation uses elliptical, impressionistic prose to question conventional narrative and the ideologies with which it is associated. The critical introduction, "Charting the Liminal: Intersection 02-2002: Talking Back in Bits and Pieces" contextualizes my work in a tradition of women writers and argues for the liminal as a viable feminist tactical position in a postmodern world. I suggest that the postmodern preoccupation with space offers fruitful possibilities for feminist theory and revision of narrative and that postmodern fictional/critical writing can go beyond play, into the realm of the political