Fay Weldon's Fiction

by Finuala Dowling

This book situates Weldon's fiction at the intersection of post-modernism and feminism. The author, herself an award-winning fiction writer, believes that Weldon's fiction is doubly subversive because it both overturns "reasonable" narrative conventions and wittily deconstructs the specious terminology used to define women. The book focuses on the disobedient female protagonists and gynocentric themes which together make up Weldon's uproarious feminist revenge comedies.

194 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1998