Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

Author: Radha Chakravarty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1317809955

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This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing
Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women's Writing

Author: E. Jackson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0230275095

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This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era.

Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing

Author: Jane Eldridge Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1136214305

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Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.

Border Traffic
Border Traffic

Author: Maggie Humm

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780719027048

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A work on the ways in which women writers from different races and cultures often choose similar, alternative routes across the "borders" of their literary place. For example, Buchi Emecheta's and Bessie Head's exile in Britain and Botswana dictate the form and content of their writing.

Contemporary Feminism and Women's Short Stories
Contemporary Feminism and Women's Short Stories

Author: Emma Young

Publisher: EUP

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9781474427739

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This book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.

Women's Writing in Colombia
Women's Writing in Colombia

Author: Cherilyn Elston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3319432613

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Winner of the Montserrat Ordóñez Prize 2018 This book provides an original and exciting analysis of Colombian women’s writing and its relationship to feminist history from the 1970s to the present. In a period in which questions surrounding women and gender are often sidelined in the academic arena, it argues that feminism has been an important and intrinsic part of contemporary Colombian history. Focusing on understudied literary and non-literary texts written by Colombian women, it traces the particularities of Colombian feminism, showing how it has been closely entwined with left-wing politics and the country’s history of violence. This book therefore rethinks the place of feminism in Latin American history and its relationship to feminisms elsewhere, challenging many of the predominant critical paradigms used to understand Latin American literature and culture.

Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing

Author: Jennifer Cooke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-08

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1108808190

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Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.

Mother, She Wrote
Mother, She Wrote

Author: Yi-Lin Yu

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780820469003

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In this enjoyable and insightful book, Yi-Lin Yu takes the heated and ongoing feminist debate over motherhood and maternal subjectivity onto a new plane - in search of a new synthesis. With its specific focus on the three-tiered matrilineal narratives, Mother, She Wrote is distinguished by its complex and innovative deployment of psychoanalytic subject-relations theories, and a meticulous and detailed discussion of various literary texts, which calls forth a powerful reformulation of these narratives. One of the main strengths of this book is this simultaneous and tactful command of theory and literary practice. Apart from advocating the burgeoning development of women's writing of matrilineal narratives, the author also sheds new light on further research in the area of feminist motherhood and mothering.

Feminist Theory, Women's Writing
Feminist Theory, Women's Writing

Author: Laurie Finke

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1501726250

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In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical context and the larger framework of current theory concerning language, representation, subjectivity, and value.