On the Winds and Waves of Imagination: Transnational Feminism and Literature

by Constance S. Richards

Overview

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138977549
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/26/2016
Series:	Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture , #20
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction — Acknowledgments — Illustrations — CHAPTER 1 Toward a Transnational Feminist Writing and Reading Practice — Decolonizing Empire: Approaches to Postcolonial Studies — Decolonizing Literature: Canons and Countercanons — When It Rains It Pours: Women of The Tempest — Transnational Feminism and Anticolonial Reading — Intervention and Invention as Transnational Feminist Practice — CHAPTER 2 Virginia Woolf: A Critique from the Center of Empire — “[T]he things people don’t say”: Silence as a Critique of Empire in The Voyage Out — Parody and the Critique of the Colonial Project: Between the Acts — Comic Colonials and Complicit Intellectuals — CHAPTER 3 Transnational Feminist Reading: The Case of Cape Town — ...like living on shifting sands”: Protest Literature in South Africa — Troubling Racial Hegemony: “Post”-Protest Literature — A Novel for a New South Africa — CHAPTER 4 Exoticism to Transnational Feminism: Alice Walker — Africa and Walker’s Literary Imagination — The Color Purple — The Temple of My Familiar — Possessing The Secret of Joy — Epilogue — Bibliography — Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Richards generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in her book. By catching the currents of postcolonial thought and cross-linking them with feminist literary criticism, she gives another boost to the scholarhsip in the field." — Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College, Woolf Studies Annual

From the Publisher

Preferring the term "transnational feminism" to "global feminism," Richards integrates feminist and postcolonial approaches to reading selected writings of authors whose thought and characters deconstruct the colonial process as it affects women: Virginia Woolf, Z<:o>e Wicomb (, 1987), and Alice Walker. Includes a couple of illustrations of African and African American art (memorial and effigies). The author acknowledges her mentors at Ohio State U., but her current affiliation is unspecified. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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