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Woman's body as colony: Impossible Saints.(Book Review)
Michele Roberts, Impossible Saints. (London: Virago, 1998), 308 pages ISBN 1860494560
Michele Roberts's novel, translated and published by Imge Yayinevi into Turkish (Kutsanmamis Azizeler), is so rich a novel that it virtually provides material for several courses such as the instruction of one-semester-history-of-Middle Ages, Sociology, Political Science and Feminist culture. There is no need to talk about Literature. It is already there.
In one of her interviews Michele Roberts says that because she had been "a Catholic and the body is very scorned in Catholicism-particularly the female body-(she) wanted to rescue the body and cherish it and love it ...
- Michele Roberts.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The People (London, England) September 1, 1996 700+ words
...programme, we incorrectly stated that Michele Roberts had betrayed her best pal by seducing...accompanied our story made clear, it was Michele Roberts' son, Stephen Roberts, who had...Michelle Williams. We apologise to Michele Roberts for the distress caused by our article...
- Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Literary Imagination White, Rosie September 22, 2003 700+ words
...A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts continually has returned in her fiction...for theorizing the (im)possible. Michele Roberts's first three novels, A Piece of...which veer toward Kunstlerroman. Michele Roberts's novels implicitly propose the...
- Her odyssey, herstory in Michele Roberts's Fair Exchange.(Critical Essay)
- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Falcus, Sarah March 22, 2003 700+ words
...which women can tell their own stories and their own "herstories." The "reclaiming of history" is integral to much of Michele Roberts's work, as she recontextualizes, reconfigures, and rewrites myth, biblical scripture, apocryphal texts, and historical...
- HER LIFE IS HER JOB; Michele Roberts is a public defender, willing to give...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jill Nelson June 12, 1988 700+ words
...once were high officials of the South Vietnamese government, allegedly after he discovered that he had been disinherited. Michele Roberts, public defender and chief of the PDS trial division, stands half-dressed in her office. Always unable to sleep the...
- "Impossible mourning" in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Michele Roberts's...
- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Luckhurst, Roger June 22, 1996 700+ words
...Toni Morrison's oeurre has fostered a massive critical industry; Beloved alone is the subject of some thirty articles. Michele Roberts has been an important, but resolutely marginalized presence on the British literary scene, her work shunted off into the...
- From House to Home: A Kristevan Reading of Michele Roberts's Daughters of the...
- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction PARKER, EMMA January 1, 2000 700+ words
...down paternal houses that do not offer their female protagonists satisfactory homes.(1) In Daughters of the House, Michele Roberts prefers to transform rather than destroy the house in which her two main female characters reside, a metaphor for the patriarchal...
- New Fiction.(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) January 7, 2005 700+ words
...CROSS Reader, I Married Him by Michele Roberts (Little, Brown, [pounds sterling]14.99) MICHELE ROBERTS'S 12th novel is a deliciously...shopping. But don't be deceived: Michele Roberts has written something altogether...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London LORNA SAGE September 11, 1994 700+ words
MICHELE ROBERTS is still busy sorting through her...few promising things about them in Michele Roberts's book). Bodies are like clothes...literary version of dressing up. Michele Roberts rewrites herself too: this is a...
