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Women Writing Across Cultures

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351586269

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Women Writing Across Cultures by Pelagia Goulimari Pdf

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Writing Women Across Cultures

Author : Jasbir Jain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015052548347

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Writing Women Across Cultures by Jasbir Jain Pdf

This Collection Of 18 Essays Deal With The Myriad Aspects Of The Women Question-How Women Have Been Associated In Culture And Myth, How They Write Themselves, And Take Up The Relationships Between Gender, Culture And Narrativie Strategies And Work Through The Writings Of Women (And Also Some Men) Both From India And The Western World. The Essays Relate Simultaneously To Cultural, Literary And Women`S Studies.

Writing Across Cultures

Author : Omar Sougou
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9042013087

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Writing Across Cultures by Omar Sougou Pdf

This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this "born writer." Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer's fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.

Women Writing Culture

Author : Ruth Behar,Deborah A. Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520202082

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Women Writing Culture by Ruth Behar,Deborah A. Gordon Pdf

Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."

Writing Across Cultures

Author : Omar Sougou
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9042012986

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Writing Across Cultures by Omar Sougou Pdf

This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this "born writer." Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer's fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.

Telling it

Author : Telling It Book Collective (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015019652620

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Telling it by Telling It Book Collective (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

A thought-provoking collection of dialogue, reflective commentary, and creative writing by prominent Native, Asian-Canadian, and lesbian writers.

Women Writing Culture

Author : Gary A. Olson,Elizabeth Hirsh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438415062

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Women Writing Culture by Gary A. Olson,Elizabeth Hirsh Pdf

Women Writing Culture is a collection of six interviews with internationally prominent scholars about feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism. Those interviewed include feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding; cultural critic and philosopher of science Donna Haraway; noted American theorist of women's epistemology Mary Belenky; African-American cultural critic bell hooks; Luce Irigaray, a major exponent of "French Feminism"; and Jean-Francois Lyotard, a philosopher and cultural critic who has helped to define "the postmodern condition." Together, these interviews afford significant insight into these eminent scholars' perspectives on women, writing, and culture, and explore how women write culture through the various postmodern discourses in which they engage.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Author : Xiaolu Guo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307455635

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo Pdf

From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything, leading her into a world of self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, “love” does not always mean the same as in China, and that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily improving grammar and vocabulary, Z's evolving voice makes her quest for comprehension all the more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo has created an utterly original novel about identity and the cultural divide.

Writing Across Culture

Author : Kenneth Wagner,Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820419230

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This book is about culture shock and the writing process. For a student, the relationship between writing and the challenge of living in a foreign culture may not be obvious. The purpose of Writing Across Culture is to aid the student in documenting and analyzing the connection. If culture can be broadly defined as the unwritten rules of every-day life, one effective method for learning these rules is to write about them as they are discovered. In this way, it is possible to see writing as a tool for cultural inquiry and comprehension, and, hence, an antidote for culture shock. Writing Across Culture encourages its readers to become writers engaged in a dialogue - between the individual and the new society - about everyday cultural differences.

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020

Author : Deirdre Flynn,Ciara L. Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000588354

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Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 by Deirdre Flynn,Ciara L. Murphy Pdf

Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980–2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women’s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus across cultural mediums, this collection of essays from leading scholars in Irish studies considers how economic policies impacted on and are represented in Irish women’s writing during critical junctures in recent Irish history. Through an investigation of cultural production north and south of the border, this collection analyses women’s writing using a multimedium approach through four distinct lenses: austerity, feminism, and conflict; arts and austerity; race and austerity; and spaces of austerity. This collection asks two questions: what sort of cultural output does austerity produce? And if the effects of austerity are gendered, then what are the gender-specific responses to financial insecurity, both national and domestic? By investigating how austerity is treated in women’s writing and culture from 1980 to 2020, this collection provides a much-needed analysis of the gendered experience of economic crisis and specifically of Ireland’s consistent relationship with cycles of boom and bust. Thirteen chapters, which focus on fiction, drama, poetry, women’s life writing, ​and women's cultural contributions, examine these questions. This volume takes the reader on a journey across decades and forms as a means of interrogating the growth of the economic divide between the rich and the poor since the 1980s through the voices of Irish women.

Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650

Author : Anne Lawrence-Mathers,Phillipa Hardman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153321

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Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650 by Anne Lawrence-Mathers,Phillipa Hardman Pdf

Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women's participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes. Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print --Book Jacket.

Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing

Author : Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Gina Wisker
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042029354

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Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo,Gina Wisker Pdf

This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modem and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA , and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of passage derived from the work of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. Collectively, the essays suggest that women's writing and women's experiences from diverse cultures go beyond any straightforward notion of a threefold structure of separation, transition, and incorporation. Some essays include discussion of traditional rites of passage such as birth, motherhood, marriage, death, and bereavement; others are interested in exploring less traditional, more fluid, and/or problematic rites such as abortion, living with HI V/AIDS, and coming into political consciousness. Contributors seek ways of linking writing on rites of passage to feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theories which foreground margins, borders, and the outsider. The three opening essays explore the work of the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, whose groundbreaking work explored taboo subjects such as infanticide and incest. A wide range of other essays focus on writers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. including Jean Rhys, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Jean Arasanayagam, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and Eva Sallis. Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of postcolonial and modern and contemporary women's writing, and to students on literature and women's studies courses who want to study women's writing from a cross-cultural perspective and from different theoretical positions. Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo is Head of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research focus is on African literature (particularly Zimbabwean), contemporary women's writing, and postcolonial cinemas. Gina Wisker is Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton, where she teaches literature, is the head of the centre for learning and teaching, and pursues her research interests in postcolonial women's writing.

Writing Between Cultures

Author : Holly E. Martin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488490

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Writing Between Cultures by Holly E. Martin Pdf

Hybrid narrative forms are used frequently by authors exploring or living in multicultural societies as a method of reflecting multicultural lives. This timely book examines this rhetorical strategy, which permits an author to bridge cultures via literary technique. Strategies covered include multilingualism, magical realism, ironic humor, the use of mythological figures from the characters' heritage cultures, and the presentation of different perspectives on landscapes and other spaces as related to ethnicity. By investigating elements of ethnic literature comparatively, this book reaches beyond the boundaries of any one ethnic group, a vital quality in today's world.

Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond

Author : Camille S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527552753

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Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond by Camille S. Alexander Pdf

Black British writing in the decades after the Windrush generation was marked by a significant change: more immigrant women were published in the UK in these decades than ever before. This book is a collection of essays examining the texts of some of these women writers. Included are essays on Black British women writers, such as Warshan Shire, Eintou Pearl Springer, Beryl Gilroy, Buchi Emecheta, and Barbara Jenkins, which span the literary period from the 1970s to the early 2000s. The essays in this collection propose that these women writers represent the voices of another subgenre of Black British writing, and they are connected – through immigration or temporary migration – to the UK. Yet, they also remain firmly attached to their geographical and cultural origins. The essays included in this collection explore what it means to be a Black British woman writer, and how members of this group were able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction.

Austerity and Irish Women's Writing and Culture, 1980-2020

Author : Deirdre Flynn,Ciara L. Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1032075228

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Austerity and Irish Women's Writing and Culture, 1980-2020 by Deirdre Flynn,Ciara L. Murphy Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Irish Women's Writing and Culture Under the Shadow of Austerity -- Cycles of Boom and Bust: Austerity as Violence -- Social Change -- Irish Women's Writing and Austerity -- Woman as Nation -- Pregnancy and Motherhood -- Waking the Feminists: A Women's Protest -- Chapter Outlines -- Austerity, Feminism, and Conflict -- Arts and Austerity -- Race and Austerity -- Spaces of Austerity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section 1 Austerity, Feminism, and Conflict -- 2 Two Opposing Narratives?: The Field Day and LIP Pamphlets -- Disparate Fields of Power: The Field Day (1983-1988) and LIP Pamphlets (1989-1992) -- Overcoming Austerity By Opening Up the Irish Cultural Sphere -- Upholding and Dismantling Austerity: The Habitus of the Field Day and LIP Pamphlets -- "Compositional Codes": The LIP and Field Day Pamphlets -- The Aftermath of the Field Day Anthology I-III -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Austerity, Conflict, and Second-Wave Feminism in the North of Ireland -- Introduction -- Forming Charabanc Theatre Company -- Illuminating Shared Herstories -- Second-Wave Feminism On the Island of Ireland -- Feminist Politics and the Female Gaze -- Consciousness-Raising Through Performance -- Artistic and Commercial Success -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4 #WakeUpIrishPoetry: Austerity and Activism in Contemporary Irish Poetry - A Personal Reflection -- Introduction -- Interlude: Reflections From the Background(s), Or the Hall of Mirrors, Or How We See Ourselves Disappear -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start? -- Is This Where I Start?.