Mappings : feminism and the cultural geographies of encounter / Susan Stanford Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Susan Stanford.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Women's studies.

Feminism and education.

Multiculturalism.

Feminist geography.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed. Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity. Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Gloria Anzalda, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, and Irena Klepfisz. Defending the pioneering role of academic feminists in the knowledge revolution, this work draws on a wide variety of twentieth-century cultural expressions to address theoretical issues in postmodern feminism.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. Locational Feminism

PART I: FEMINISM/MULTICULTURALISM

CHAPTER 1. "Beyond" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism

CHAPTER 2. "Beyond" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse

CHAPTER 3. "Beyond" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands

PART II: FEMINISM/GLOBALISM

CHAPTER 4. Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at "Home"- The Case of Virginia Woolf

CHAPTER 5. Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology

CHAPTER 6. "Routes/Roots": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity

PART III: FEMINISM/POSTSTRUCTURALISM

CHAPTER 7. Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism

CHAPTER 8. Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire

CHAPTER 9. Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index.

ISBN:

9786612753428

9781282753426

1282753428

9781400822577

1400822572

OCLC:

179088150