Constance S Richards

Transnational Feminism and Literature

Studies in Woolf, Wicomb, and Walker

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 146mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780815333661
• ISBN-10: 0815333668
• Artikelnr.: 22060827

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.