Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goodman, Robin Truth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory offers an insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in the European Enlightenment, this book traces the literary careers of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection of feminist theoretical production to literary work. In addition to considering such well-known authors as Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir and Helene Cixous, this book also reflects on the lasting influence of postcolonialism, liberalism, and specific genres such as science fiction and modernist poetry. Written by leading scholars and focusing on the literary trajectories of feminism's noted contributors, Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory ultimately provides a new perspective on feminism's theoretical context, bringing into view the effects of literary form on the growth of feminist thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316430460
• Artikelnr.: 44764305

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Robin Truth Goodman; 2. 'Original spirit': literary
translations and transnational literature in the works of Mary
Wollstonecraft Laura Kirley; 3. Jane Eyre, Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl, and the varieties of nineteenth-century feminism Margaret Homans; 4.
Progressive portraits: literature in feminisms of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
and Olive Schreiner Judith A. Allen; 5. Feminist poetics: first-wave
feminism, theory, and modernist women poets Linda Kinnahan; 6. Woolf and
women's work: literary invention in an obscure hat factory Robin Truth
Goodman; 7. Walking in a man's world: myth, literature, and the
interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex Ashley King Scheu; 8.
Decapitation impossible: the hundred heads of Julia Kristeva Maria
Margaroni; 9. Shattering the gender walls: Monique Wittig's contribution to
literature Dominique Bourque; 10. Hélène Cixous: writing for her life Peggy
Kamuf; 11. Subversive creatures from behind the Iron Curtain: Irmtraud
Morgner's The Life and Adventures of Trobodora Beatrice as Chronicled by
her Minstrel Laura Sonja E. Klocke; 12. Christa Wolf: literature as an
aesthetics of resistance Anna K. Kuhn; 13. Naked came the female
extraterrestrial stranger: applying Linda M. Scott's Fresh Lipstick to Sue
Lange's The Textile Planet Marleen S. Barr; 14. Captive maternal love:
Octavia Butler and science fiction family values Joy James; 15. More than
theatre: Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman and the feminist phenomenology
of excess Lakey; 16. Nawal el Saadawi: writer and revolutionary Miriam
Cooke; 17. 'The woman who said 'no'': colonialism, Islam, and feminist
resistance in the works of Assia Djebar Jane Hiddleston.