ISBN:
9781501723025
,
1501723022
,
1501723022
,
9781501723025
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (351 p)
Series Statement:
Reading Women Writing Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Borderwork
Parallel Title:
Print version Higonnet, Margaret R Borderwork : Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
DDC:
809/.89287
Keywords:
Feminist literary criticism
;
Comparative literature
;
Feminist literary criticism
;
Comparative literature
;
Comparative literature
;
Feminist literary criticism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
;
Literaturkritik
;
Feminismus
Abstract:
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline and calls for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender
Abstract:
7. Cassandra's Question: Do Women Write War Novels?8. Jane's Family Romances; Part III. Sites of Critical Practice; 9. Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny; 10. One Must Go Quickly from One Light into Another: Between Ingeborg Bachmann and Jacques Derrida; 11. Dangerous Crossings: Gender and Criticism in Arabic Literary Studies; 12. Identity Politics as a Comparative Poetics; Part IV. Future Engagements; 13. Cross Fire and Collaboration among Comparative Literature, Feminism, and the New Historicism
Abstract:
Borderwork; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Cross-Cultural Constructions of Female Subjects; 1. Dissymmetry Embodied: Feminism, Universalism, and the Practice of Excision; 2. ""Changing Masters"": Gender, Genre, and the Discourses of Slavery; 3. Life after Rape: Narrative, Theory, and Feminism; Part II. Genre Theory; 4. Modifications of Genre: A Feminist Critique of ""Christabel"" and ""Die Braut von Korinth; 5. Female Difficulties, Comparativist Challenge: Novels by English and German Women, 1752â#x80;#x93;1814; 6. Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence
Abstract:
Borderwork; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Cross-Cultural Constructions of Female Subjects; 1. Dissymmetry Embodied: Feminism, Universalism, and the Practice of Excision; 2. ""Changing Masters"": Gender, Genre, and the Discourses of Slavery; 3. Life after Rape: Narrative, Theory, and Feminism; Part II. Genre Theory; 4. Modifications of Genre: A Feminist Critique of ""Christabel"" and ""Die Braut von Korinth; 5. Female Difficulties, Comparativist Challenge: Novels by English and German Women, 1752â#x80;#x93;1814; 6. Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence
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