A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780745011943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str.

Maggie Humm

Opis

This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The 1960s to the 1990s  2. Second Wave: de Beauvoir, Millett, Friedan, Greer  3. Myth Criticism: Daly, Pratt, Walker  4. Marxist and Socialist Feminist Criticism: Birmingham Centre, Barrett, Kaplan, Robinson  5. French Feminist Criticism: Ecriture and Etudes Feminines, Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray  6. Psychoanalytical Criticism: Mitchell, Jacobus, Gilbert and Gubar  7. Poststructuralism, deconstruction, postmodernism: Spillers, Spivak, Blau DuPlessis  8. Black Feminisms: The African Diaspora: Overview, Walker, Lorde, Smith, Christian, Ngcobo  9. Lesbian Feminism: Wittig, Zimmerman, Anzaldua, Sedgwick and Queer Theory, Rule, Stimpson, Daly  10. Third World Feminist Criticism: Third Wave and Fifth Gear: India, Latin America, Sandoval, Mohanty, Anzaldua, Chow, Castellenos  11. Feminist Futures

O autorze

Maggie Humm is a Professor in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London.