On the winds and waves of imagination : transnational feminism and literature / Constance S. Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Constance S.

Series:

Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2156.

Garland reference library of the humanities. Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; vol. 20.

Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; vol. 20. Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2156

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Alice.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Feminism and literature--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

History.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Political and social views.

Woolf, Virginia.

Wicomb, Zoë. You can't get lost in Cape Town.

Wicomb, Zoë.

Women and literature--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Walker, Alice--Political and social views.

Decolonization in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Postcolonialism.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

Summary:

This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression. Richards has chosen for her subjects three women writers who represent different positions in a contemporary global configuration.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Toward a Transnational Feminist Writing and Reading Practice 1

Decolonizing Empire: Approaches to Postcolonial Studies 3

Decolonizing Literature: Canons and Countercanons 14

When It Rains It Pours: Women of The Tempest 19

Transnational Feminism and Anticolonial Reading 24

Intervention and Invention as Transnational Feminist Practice 29

Chapter 2 Virginia Woolf: A Critique from the Center of Empire 39

"[T]he things people don't say": Silence as a Critique of Empire in The Voyage Out 44

Parody and the Critique of the Colonial Project: Between the Acts 55

Comic Colonials and Complicit Intellectuals 63

Chapter 3 Transnational Feminist Reading: The Case of Cape Town 73

"... like living on shifting sands": Protest Literature in South Africa 78

Troubling Racial Hegemony: "Post"-Protest Literature 85

A Novel for a New South Africa 91

Chapter 4 Exoticism to Transnational Feminism: Alice Walker 103

Africa and Walker's Literary Imagination 106

The Color Purple 115

The Temple of My Familiar 125

Possessing the Secret of Joy 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.

ISBN:

0815333668

OCLC:

43434578