The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an analysis of these women's writings, Cynthia R. Wallace crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptiv...
Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories. Drawing on interviews with the author, as well as the stories themselves, Taylor emphasizes Paley's awareness that women's voices have been muted and their stories ignored or left...
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth (Routledge Research in Travel Writing)
The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in da...
Hannah McGregor has a very active Twitter and Instagram following Both Witch, Please (20,000 listeners +) and Secret Feminist Agenda have strong following. Witch, Please is a non-scholarly audience. SFA has a crossover audience topicality: TERFs and transphobic feminism; podcasting and its influence on feminism feminist scholars, gender and media scholars; life writing readers of Sara Ahmed or Donna Haraway Hannah is one of the co-authors of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, which caused a buzz when it w...
Bodies of Disorder (Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, #26)
by Katharine Murphy
The 'narrative turn' in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the 'medial turn' in narratology. Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual, auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered in this volume apply the newly gained...
It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done Notebook and Journal
by Impossible Publishing
Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914
by Alexis Easley
This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. As wome...
The Legendary Life and Poetry of Islam's First Woman Sufi Saint Rabia al-Adawiyya
by Jessica Monte
Erzaehlanfaenge Und Erzaehlschluesse Im Adoleszenzroman (Kinder- Und Jugendkultur, -Literatur Und -Medien, #118)
by Nadine Bieker
Der Anfang und das Ende geben einer jeden Erzahlung einen Rahmen. Bisher ist jedoch nur unzureichend untersucht worden, wie sich der Anfang, das Ende sowie deren Zusammenhang gestalten. Durch eine strukturalistische Zugangsweise zum Text zeigt der Band je eigene Modelle fur die Analyse des Anfangs und des Endes. Eine UEbersicht zeigt zudem, wie der Residualtext vom Anfang zum Ende uberleiten kann. Der Adoleszenzroman eignet sich als konventionalisierte Kommunikationsform als Grundlage fur die Ko...
Throughout much of the 20th century, literary theory came to be considered the queen discipline of literary studies. It failed, though, to deliver the promises it carried from its onset as an academic field of inquiry and, came to be shrunk and side-lined in the last three or four decades. The author describes and discusses 20th century literary theory and its appeal to scientific methodology. His aim is to depict the intrinsic motives of its downfall. The book focuses on the appeal to scientifi...
Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the questio...
Queer Expectations (SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book
by Elly Blue and Meggyn Pomerleau
Melusine The Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology
by Gillian Alban
Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarcha...
Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr, together with a talented crew of the field's established and emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females, the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for imagining feminist thought experiments. A multinational perspective runs through this innovative volume, focusing...
Failure as a pervasive occurrence in life has rarely been investigated by sociology, even though the collapse of plans, unattainability of goals and breakdown of vital relationships are ordinary experiences. The study of early-21st-century fiction reveals that imaginative literature at present explores the lacunae of failure, disillusionment and collapse as central narrative themes. About fifty years after Samuel Beckett, in whose works the failing of expression became a major concern, postmille...
Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf
by Rachel Bowlby
Feminist Destinations now appears with five essays which look at Woolf in a number of new frames - as a woman essayist; as a city writer and critic of modern culture; as a writer on love. Rachel Bowlby shows, with inimitable critical panache, how it is that Woolf's writing, in its many forms and fashions, continues to provide rich matter for thinking about the histories and futures of women, writing and culture.