New women's writing : contextualising fiction, poetry and philosophy / edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee and Girindra Narayan Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhattacharjee, Subashish

Contributor:

Bhattacharjee, Subashish, editor.

Narayan Ray, Girindra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

The uptake of women's writing as a distinct genre in literature since the 1960s has been rapid and multifarious. This development has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies, and can be seen in the growing influence of women's and gender studies even in literary studies programs. The study of women's writing has alerted literature to crucial social, political and cultural problems with which the discipline must continue to grapple.New Women's Writing addresses this legacy and reflects upon the following questions: What is a critical history of women's writing? How has women's writing challenged literature's rigid disciplinary construction? How can we derive a distinct philosophy of women's writing and literary studies? How does an engagement with women's writing contribute to a literary understanding of the complex politics of literature?This book is designed to interest both the seasoned scholar of women's writing, as well as fledgling scholars who wish to grapple with the broad concept of women's writing and its manifestations in the twentieth century and thereafter.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Women's Poetry, First World War and Working Class Experience in British Munition Factories

Atoms, Freud and Gender in Nature

Otherness as Philosophy

Children of the Windrush and the Question of Identity

"Free! Body and Soul Free!"

Space as a Psychological Resource in Dorothy Parker's Short Stories

The Creative Elle in Colette's Incomplete Autofiction Gigi

(En)Gendering Travelogy in Lessing and Morrison

"Who Am I?"

Bestial Representations of Otherness in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales

Sisterly Reflections

A Grandmother's Seduction

The Female Prometheus

My Waist, My Foot, My Breast

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Crescent and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

Caste, Gender, and Violence

Bridging the Binaries of Gender Construction in Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction

Jewish Hummingbirds and the Converted Voice

About the Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-2340-3

OCLC:

1183030419