Constance S. Richards

On the Winds and Waves of Imagination

Transnational Feminism and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781138977549
• ISBN-10: 1138977543
• Artikelnr.: 50009430

Autorenporträt

Constance S. Richards,

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
CHAPTER 1 Toward a Transnational Feminist Writing and Reading Practice
Decolonizing Empire: Approaches to Postcolonial Studies
Decolonizing Literature: Canons and Countercanons
When It Rains It Pours: Women of The Tempest
Transnational Feminism and Anticolonial Reading
Intervention and Invention as Transnational Feminist Practice
CHAPTER 2 Virginia Woolf: A Critique from the Center of Empire
"[T]he things people don't say": Silence as a Critique of Empire in The Voyage Out
Parody and the Critique of the Colonial Project: Between the Acts
Comic Colonials and Complicit Intellectuals
CHAPTER 3 Transnational Feminist Reading: The Case of Cape Town
...like living on shifting sands": Protest Literature in South Africa
Troubling Racial Hegemony: "Post"
Protest Literature
A Novel for a New South Africa
CHAPTER 4 Exoticism to Transnational Feminism: Alice Walker
Africa and Walker's Literary Imagination
The Color Purple
The Temple of My Familiar
Possessing The Secret of Joy
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.