ABSTRACT
Responding to Nathalia Saliba Dias’ chapter “‘Don’t Get All Political On Me’”, Nina Lykke diversifies Dias’ return to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s reparative methodologies to revisit frictions between feminist stances and literary readings of “bad men” fiction. Lykke exemplifies two complementary approaches: one from the archive of feminist sex-positivity: British novelist Angela Carter’s non-fiction book, The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1979); another from the archive of ethico-aesthetic feminist revisions of fictional “bad man” portraits: Swedish novelist Sara Stridsberg’s Darling River (2010) that revisits Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita ([1955] 1969), shifting the vantagepoint from the “bad man” to his objectified others.
