{"product_id":"alison-light-inside-history-from-popular-fiction-to-life-writing-1","title":"Alison Light – Inside History","description":"A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work\n\nProvides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readers\nOffers a way into a variety of texts and genres   including popular fiction, drama, film - as well as single authors, united by a lively and readable feminist approach\nExtends current thinking on national identity and Englishness from a writer who helped open these fields\nSpeaks to the new and growing academic interest in 'life-writing'\nIncludes shorter pieces which also encapsulate complex arguments as well as examples of original life-writing by the author\nIncludes an autobiographical introduction which contextualises and historicises the author's work and reflects on it\n\nAlison Light   Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49711945154904,"sku":"9781474481724","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781474481724.jpg?v=1781005557","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/alison-light-inside-history-from-popular-fiction-to-life-writing-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}