Download e-book for iPad: The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney

By Ellen Rooney

ISBN-10: 0521001684

ISBN-13: 9780521001687

Feminism has dramatically stimulated the way in which literary texts are learn, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary thought has intentionally transgressed conventional limitations among literature, philosophy and the social sciences for you to know the way gender has been built and represented via language. This full of life and thought-provoking significant other provides various methods to the sphere. a few of the essays display feminist serious ideas at paintings in analysing texts, whereas others take a step again to track the advance of a selected feminist literary strategy. The essays draw on a number of fundamental fabric from the medieval interval to postmodernism and from numerous international locations, disciplines and genres. each one essay indicates additional examining to discover this box extra. this is often the main available advisor to be had either for college students of literature new to this constructing box, and for college students of gender stories and readers attracted to the interactions of feminism, literary feedback and literature.

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Phyllis Marynick Palmer, “White Women/Black Women: The Dualism of Female Identity and Experience in the United States,” Feminist Studies 9:1 (Spring 1983), p. 152. 19. Jean Fagan Yellin, Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 79–80. 20. , The New Feminist Criticism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), p. 5. 21. Deborah E. McDowell, “New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism,” in Showalter, New Feminist Criticism, p. 186. 22. , The Black Woman: An Anthology (New York: New American Library, 1970), p.

It is worth noting, however, that the canon construction to which black feminist studies devoted itself in its infancy began less with reclaiming its past than with celebrating its present. That is to say, the earliest black female-centered anthologies and critical studies (the term “feminist” was rarely used initially) focus less on reclaiming the lost works of nineteenth-century foremothers than on showcasing the work of contemporary, living black women writers and on recasting recent historical periods like the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s in women-centered terms.

Afro-American Women Writers, 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide (New York: New American Library, 1989), p. 65. “The Two Offers” was originally serialized in The Anglo-African in 1859. 11. Jane Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. xiv–xv. 12. , Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (New York: Kitchen Table-Women of Color Press, 1983), p. 83. 13. Carolyn Sylvander, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Black American Writer (Troy, NY: Whitson, 1981), p.

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