Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Feminist

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:

• a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory
• an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine
• a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other
• a new theory of poetic realism...

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject--one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright with the feminine inclined, she references philosophical texts (by Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Elias Canetti, and others) as well as works of art (Barnett Newman,...

Gerri Kimber draws on detailed reminiscences of Mansfield's former school friends and acquaintances, early letters, Mansfield's autograph book, notebooks and family papers as well as on previously unused archive material and photographs. Kimber illuminates Mansfield's home life and school...

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian s women plays in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes.

Three plays are focused upon: "Lysistrata," "Thesmophoriazusae," and "Ecclesiazusae." All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women s rights, the value of women s...

Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language
literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman
shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary
French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim
that these writers express a Francophile or "colonized" consciousness, this
book demonstrates how Lebanese women writers actively question the political
and cultural meaning of writing in French in Lebanon. Hartman argues
that their innovative language inscribes messages about...

Writing the Orgy provides an innovative, highly persuasive interpretation of eroticism in the Marqui de Sade's writing. Combining literary theory with methodologies borrowed from anthropology, history, and psychoanalysis, the book is a brilliant feminist reading of a text--The Story of Julliete--often characterized as brutally aggressive and pornographic.