Feminism as World Literature
Series: Literatures as World Literature;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 27 June 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501371226
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 bw illus 734
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Long description:
The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, among others. What if there is another way to trace the lineage, starting with Simone de Beauvoir and moving through Hannah Arendt, Assia Djebar, Octavia Butler, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Gayatri Spivak? What ideas and issues get left out of the current foundations that have institutionalized World Literature, and what can be added, challenged, or changed with this tweaking of the referential terminology?
Feminism as World Literature redefines the thematic and theoretical contents of World Literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses, frameworks, and concepts in a World Literature context. Other ideas built into World Literature and its criticism are viewed here by feminist framings, including the environment, technology, immigration, translation, work, race, governance, image, sound, religion, affect, violence, media, future, and history. The authors recognize genres, strategies, and themes of World Literature that demonstrate feminism as integral to the world-making gestures of literary form and production. In other words, this volume looks to readings and modes of reading that expose how the historical worldliness of texts allows for feminist interventions that might not sit clearly or comfortably on the surfaces.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is a Feminist World Literature Possible?
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA
Part I Genres
1. "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, Connecticut College, USA
2. Changing the World of Feminist Demodystopias
Caren Irr, Brandeis University, USA
3. The Speculative Mode in Feminist World Literature
Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia, USA
4. Poet/Guerreras: Hip-Hop and World Literature
Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University, USA
5. Surface Matters: Female Allegories and the Gendering of Continents from Waldseemüller to Ortelius
Katharina N. Piechocki, Harvard University, USA
Part II Strategies
6. Bonds of Labor: Mahasweta Devi, Feminism, Leninism
Keya Ganguly, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
7. The Worlds That Women Collect
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University, USA
8. Practicing Transnational Feminist Recovery Today
Jessica Berman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
9. Woman as Anti-Suicide Bomb: Women Trapped between Past and Future
Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10. Translating Hidden Economies: Toward a Decolonial-Feminist Worlding of Literature
Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
11. The Elusive Postcolonial: Women Writers in/and the African Diaspora
Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University, USA
Part III Themes
12. Intertwining Feminisms, Environmentalisms, and World Literature in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA
13. Troubling the Human, Worlding Gender in Maryse Condé's The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana
Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA
14. Dissident Feminist Subjects and Spaces in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Sarah Afzal, Florida State University, USA
15. Maghrebi Women's Literature and Film: The "Ecritures féminines" of Unsubmissive Voices
Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland, USA
16. Toward a New Theory of Feminist World Literature, in Film
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA
17. Passivity and Nomadism in the Literature of Luisa Valenzuela
Sofia Iaffa, Stockholm University, Sweden
Notes on Contributors
Index
