Women Writing Across Cultures

Present, past, future
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-33665-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses?

The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goulimari, Pelagia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Seduça˜o" [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

Über Autor(innen)

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.