Women Writers and Experimental Narratives

This book explores the history of women's engagement with writing experimentally.Women writers have long used different narratives and modes of writing as a wayof critiquing worlds and stories that they find themselves at odds with, but at thesame time, as a way to participate in such spaces. Experimentation-of style,mode, voice, genre and language-has enabled women writers to besimultaneously creative and critical, engaged in and yet apart from stories andcultures that have so often seen them as 'other'. This collection shows thatwomen writers in English over the past 400 years have challenged those ideas notonly through explicit polemic and alternative representations but throughdisrupting the very modes of representation and story itself.