‘“Belonging Nowhere?”: Labelling British Experimental Women’s Fiction of the Long Sixties

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the ways in which a range of relatively neglected British women writers (including Ann Quin, Anna Kavan, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose and Brigid Brophy) have been labelled, both during and after the long sixties. By giving an overview of the various categorisations attributed to women’s experimental fiction in Britain and the ways in which they’ve been employed, it interrogates the reasons for the critical neglect of British experimental women’s writing whilst at the same time teasing out to what extent the categorisation “neo-avant-garde” might be a useful term in exploring the influences and persisting concerns of this innovative fiction.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeo-Avant-Gardes: Post-War Literary Experiments Across Borders
EditorsBart Vervaeck
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
Chapter14
Pages264-280
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)978-1-4744-8609-5
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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