Feminism as World Literature
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- New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
- 308p.
Redefines the thematic contents of world literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses, frameworks, and concepts in a world literature context"
Introduction: Is a feminist world literature possible? / Robin Truth Goodman Genres. "There are in Persia many subjects not accessible to female inquiry": Eurocentric and cross-cultural feminist nomadism in Lady Mary Sheil's Glimpses of life and manners in Persia (1856) / Marie Ostby Changing the world of feminist demodystopias / Caren Irr The speculative mode in feminist world literature / Debjani Ganguly Poet/guerreras: hip hop and world literature / Debra Castillo Surface matters: female allegories and the gendering of continents from Waldseemüller to Ortelius / Katharina Piechocki Strategies. Bonds of labor: Mahasweta Devi, feminism, Leninism / Keya Gangulyhe Worlds that women collect / Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya Practicing transnational feminist recovery today / Jessica Berman Woman as anti-suicide bomb: women trapped between past and future / Mieke Bal Towards a decolonial-feminist worlding of literature / Laura Doyle The elusive post-colonial: women writers in/and the African diaspora / Hortense J. Spillers Themes. Intertwining feminisms, environmentalims, and world literature in Ruth Ozeki's A tale for the time being / Karen Thornber Troubling the human, worlding gender in Maryse Condé's The wondrous and tragic life of Ivan and Ivana / Nicole Simek Dissident feminist subjects and spaces in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness / Sarah Afzal Maghrebi women's literature and film: the 'Ecritures féminines' of Unsubmissive voices / Valérie Orlando Towards a new theory of feminist world literature, in film / Robin Truth Goodman Passivity and nomadism in the literature of Luisa Valenzuela / Sofia Iaffa
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Feminism/ Literature Feminism in Literature/ Literary Criticism