Through these essays—which deal with Bowles’s published as well as her unpublished work—Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention for an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth century and to celebrate her originality, power, and craft.
Based in disciplines and theoretical approaches that range from feminist criticism to Middle Eastern studies, from postmodernism to queer theory, and from Victorianism to the Beat Generation, the essayists naturally approach Bowles’s fiction and drama from a wide variety of critical perspectives. All of these essays are unpublished and written for this volume.
Jennie Skerl is the associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at West Chester University. Her other books are William S. Burroughs and, coedited with Robin Lydenberg, William S. Burroughs at the Front: Critical Reception, 1959–1989.
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Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; 1st edition (July 15, 1997)
