Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, past, future

by Pelagia Goulimari (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351586269
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/22/2018
Series:	Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Pelagia Goulimari teaches feminist theory, feminist writing and women’s writing at the English Faculty, University of Oxford, UK. She is Co-Convenor of the interdisciplinary Oxford M.St. in Women’s Studies. Her books include Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism (2015), Toni Morrison (2011), and the edited collection Postmodernism. What Moment? (2007). She is co-founder and co-editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Table of Contents

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