Merja Makinen (born 1953) is director of communication and culture at
Middlesex University. She is an expert on
feminist writing of the twentieth century, particularly that of
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
and
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English writer. Her first book, '' Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'', was a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. Other novels explore gender pola ...
, and has written on the
feminist aspects of popular
genre fiction
Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.
A num ...
such as the books of
Agatha Christie.
Selected publications
* ''Joyce Cary: A Descriptive Bibliography''. Mansell, London, 1989. (with Kevin Harris)
* "Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality", ''
Feminist Review
''Feminist Review'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships. The journal was established in 1979. It is published by SAGE Publishing and is edited by a collective.
...
'', No. 42, Feminist Fictions (Autumn 1992), pp. 2–15.
* ''Female fetishism: A new look''. Lawrence & Wishart, 1994.
(with
Lorraine Gamman)
* ''Feminist Popular Fiction''. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001.
* ''The Novels of Jeanette Winterson''. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005.
* ''Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity''. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2006.
References
Living people
1953 births
Literary scholars
British feminists
Academics of Middlesex University
20th-century non-fiction writers
21st-century non-fiction writers
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