1st Edition

Women Writing Across Cultures Present, past, future

Edited By Pelagia Goulimari Copyright 2018
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction – Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future Pelagia Goulimari

    Part I: Theorizing "Woman" and "Writing"

    1. A Symbiological Approach to Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Anthropocene Regenia Gagnier

    2. Is there Such a Thing as "Woman Writing"? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience Sylvie Gambaudo

    3. From Symptom to the Symbolization of Receptivity: A Girl’s Psychoanalytic Journey Louise Gyler

    4. Theorizing Closeness: A Trans Feminist Conversation Talia Bettcher and Pelagia Goulimari

    Part II: Transnational

    5. Spreading the Word: The "Woman Question" in the Periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868–69) Cláudia Pazos-Alonso

    6. Encounter with the Mirror of the Other: Angela Carter and her Personal Connection with Japan Natsumi Ikoma

    7. Transnational Theatrical Representation of the Aging: Velina Hasu Houston’s Calligraphy Eriko Hara

    Part III: Transtemporal: Present & Past

    8. Tracing Back Trauma: The Legacy of Slavery in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature by Women Claire Williams

    9. To be or Not to be Métis: Nina Bouraoui’s Embodied Memory of the Colonial Fracture Mona El Khoury

    10. Constructing Selfhood through Re-voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis Tessa Roynon

    11.Faith, Family, and Memory in the Diaries of Jane Attwater, 1766–1834 Cynthia Aalders

    12. Women’s Voices of Renewal within Tradition: The Women of the Wall of Jerusalem Kim Treiger-Bar-Am

    Part IV: Transtemporal: Present & Future

    13. Attitudes to Futurity in New German Feminisms and Contemporary Women’s Fiction Emily Spiers

    14. "Aulinhas de Seduça˜o" [Small Lessons in Seduction]: Clarice Lispector on How (Not) to be a Woman Mariela E. Méndez

    15. "Does Feminism Have a Generation Gap?": Blogging, Millennials and the Hip Hop Generation Alison Winch

    16. Feminist to Postfeminist: Contemporary Biofictions by and about Women Artists Julia Novak

    Part V: Across Discourses

    17. Practice and Cultural Politics of "Women’s Script": Nüshu as an Endangered Heritage in Contemporary China Fei-wen Liu

    18. "My main job is to translate / pain into tales they can tolerate // in another language": Women’s Poetry and the Health Humanities Jane Dowson

    19. Love in the Novels of Toni Morrison Jean Wyatt

    20. Ethical Ways of Seeing the Female Nude in Spanish Cinema María Donapetry

    Part VI: Writing Across Pronouns: She, He, They, Sie

    21. On or about December 1930: Gender and the Writing of Lives in Virginia Woolf Morag Shiach

    22. Writing as a "sie": Reflections on Barbara Köhler’s Odyssey Cycle Niemands Frau Georgina Paul

    23. They Aliki Krikidi

    24. Gendered Expectations: Writing Counter to my Gender Lauren Grodstein

    25. Writing Men Imagining Women Kirsty Gunn

    Biography

    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.