Women Writing Across Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Present, past, future
Redaktion: Goulimari, Pelagia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together scholars and practitioners seeking to question and re-theorize woman, writing, women's writing, writing across cultures. It develops recent feminist, queer and transgender theory and practice, and explores "writing across" in a number of axes. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351586276
• Artikelnr.: 57457700

Autorenporträt

Pelagia Goulimari teaches feminist theory, feminist writing and women's writing at the English Faculty, University of Oxford, UK. She is Co-Convenor of the interdisciplinary Oxford M.St. in Women's Studies. Her books include Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism (2015), Toni Morrison (2011), and the edited collection Postmodernism. What Moment? (2007). She is co-founder and co-editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future Part I:
Theorizing "Woman" and "Writing" 1. A Symbiological Approach to Sex,
Gender, and Desire in the Anthropocene 2. Is there Such a Thing as "Woman
Writing"? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience
3. From Symptom to the Symbolization of Receptivity: A Girl's
Psychoanalytic Journey 4. Theorizing Closeness: A Trans Feminist
Conversation Part II: Transnational 5. Spreading the Word: The "Woman
Question" in the Periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868-69) 6.
Encounter with the Mirror of the Other: Angela Carter and her Personal
Connection with Japan 7. Transnational Theatrical Representation of the
Aging: Velina Hasu Houston's Calligraphy Part III: Transtemporal: Present &
Past 8. Tracing Back Trauma: The Legacy of Slavery in Contemporary
Afro-Brazilian Literature by Women 9. To be or Not to be Métis: Nina
Bouraoui's Embodied Memory of the Colonial Fracture 10. Constructing
Selfhood through Re-voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo,
Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis 11.Faith, Family, and Memory
in the Diaries of Jane Attwater, 1766-1834 12. Women's Voices of Renewal
within Tradition: The Women of the Wall of Jerusalem Part IV:
Transtemporal: Present & Future 13. Attitudes to Futurity in New German
Feminisms and Contemporary Women's Fiction 14. "Aulinhas de Seduçäo" [Small
Lessons in Seduction]: Clarice Lispector on How (Not) to be a Woman 15.
"Does Feminism Have a Generation Gap?": Blogging, Millennials and the Hip
Hop Generation 16. Feminist to Postfeminist: Contemporary Biofictions by
and about Women Artists Part V: Across Discourses 17. Practice and Cultural
Politics of "Women's Script": Nüshu as an Endangered Heritage in
Contemporary China 18. "My main job is to translate / pain into tales they
can tolerate // in another language": Women's Poetry and the Health
Humanities 19. Love in the Novels of Toni Morrison 20. Ethical Ways of
Seeing the Female Nude in Spanish Cinema Part VI: Writing Across Pronouns:
She, He, They, Sie 21. On or about December 1930: Gender and the Writing of
Lives in Virginia Woolf 22. Writing as a "sie": Reflections on Barbara
Köhler's Odyssey Cycle Niemands Frau 23. They 24. Gendered Expectations:
Writing Counter to my Gender 25. Writing Men Imagining Women