Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future

ISBN-13: 9781138295766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 326 str.

Pelagia Goulimari

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This collection brings together scholars and practitioners seeking to question and re-theorize woman, writing, women’s writing, writing across cultures. It develops recent feminist, queer and transgender theory and practice, and explores "writing across" in a number of axes. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

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Introduction – Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future  Part I: Theorizing "Woman" and "Writing"  1. A Symbiological Approach to Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Anthropocene  2. Is there Such a Thing as "Woman Writing"? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience  3. From Symptom to the Symbolization of Receptivity: A Girl’s Psychoanalytic Journey  4. Theorizing Closeness: A Trans Feminist Conversation  Part II: Transnational  5. Spreading the Word: The "Woman Question" in the Periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868–69)  6. Encounter with the Mirror of the Other: Angela Carter and her Personal Connection with Japan  7. Transnational Theatrical Representation of the Aging: Velina Hasu Houston’s Calligraphy  Part III: Transtemporal: Present & Past  8. Tracing Back Trauma: The Legacy of Slavery in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature by Women  9. To be or Not to be Métis: Nina Bouraoui’s Embodied Memory of the Colonial Fracture  10. Constructing Selfhood through Re-voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis  11.Faith, Family, and Memory in the Diaries of Jane Attwater, 1766–1834  12. Women’s Voices of Renewal within Tradition: The Women of the Wall of Jerusalem  Part IV: Transtemporal: Present & Future  13. Attitudes to Futurity in New German Feminisms and Contemporary Women’s Fiction  14. "Aulinhas de Seduça˜o" [Small Lessons in Seduction]: Clarice Lispector on How (Not) to be a Woman  15. "Does Feminism Have a Generation Gap?": Blogging, Millennials and the Hip Hop Generation  16. Feminist to Postfeminist: Contemporary Biofictions by and about Women Artists  Part V: Across Discourses  17. Practice and Cultural Politics of "Women’s Script": Nüshu as an Endangered Heritage in Contemporary China  18. "My main job is to translate / pain into tales they can tolerate // in another language": Women’s Poetry and the Health Humanities  19. Love in the Novels of Toni Morrison  20. Ethical Ways of Seeing the Female Nude in Spanish Cinema  Part VI: Writing Across Pronouns: She, He, They, Sie  21. On or about December 1930: Gender and the Writing of Lives in Virginia Woolf  22. Writing as a "sie": Reflections on Barbara Köhler’s Odyssey Cycle Niemands Frau  23. They  24. Gendered Expectations: Writing Counter to my Gender  25. Writing Men Imagining Women