Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers

ISBN-13: 9780815336068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 324 str.

Amal Amireh; Lisa Suhair Majaj

Opis

This work explores the problems of reading and writing about women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this volume examine the reception, both academic and popular, of women writers from India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Iraq, Israel and Australia. The essays focus on what happens to these writer's poetry, fiction, biography, autobiography and even to the authors themselves as they move between the third and first worlds.

Recenzje

"...the ten essays collected here provide significant readings of writings by and about Third World women...Recommended for all college and university libraries, particularly those with collections in women's studies and postcolonial literatures." -- Choice
"...the ten essays collected here provide significant readings of writings by and about Third World women... Recommended for all college and university libraries, particularly those with collections in women's studies and postcolonial literatures." -- Choice

Spis treści

Introduction, AMAL AMIREH, LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ; Part I Women’s Texts, Global Scripts; Chapter 1 The Triumphant Discourse of Global Feminism: Should Other Women Be Known?, MARNIA LAZREG; Chapter 2 An Affair to Remember: Scripted Performances in the “Nasreen Affair”, BISHNUPRIYA GHOSH; Chapter 3 Palestinian Women and the Politics of Reception, THERESE SALIBA, JEANNE KATTAN; Part II The Writer as Text; Chapter 4 Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reception of Latin American Testimonios, EVA PAULINO BUENO; Chapter 5 Packaging “Huda”: Sha’rawi’s Memoirs in the United States Reception Environment, MOHJA KAHF; Chapter 6 Identity and Community in Autobiographies of Algerian Women in France, PATRICIA GEESEY; Part III Resistant Readings; Chapter 7 “Sharp contrasts of all colours”: The Legacy of Toru Dutt, ALPANA SHARMA KNIPPLING; Chapter 8 Grim Fairy Tales: Taking a Risk, Reading Imaginary Maps, JENNIFER WENZEL; Chapter 9 Trajectories of Change: The Politics of Reading Postcolonial Women’s Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom, SALLY Mc WILLIAMS; Chapter 10 Coming to America: Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss, ELLA SHOHAT;

O autorze

Amal Amireh, LisaSuhair Majaj