International Women's Writing

Auteur

ANNE E. BROWN is Associate Professor of French at the University of New Brunswick.

MARJANNE E. GOOZE is Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and affiliated faculty in Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. Both have contributed extensively to the literature on and by women in several languages.

Texte du rabat

This collection of essays on women's writing since 1945 is the first to explore the diversity of female identity as it is expressed in the literatures of Africa, India, Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Russia, Canada (Quebec), and the United States (including texts by African, Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish American writers). The essays address the issues of sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and colonialism in the construction of identity. They employ a wide range of methodologies from socio-criticism to postmodernism, and exhibit the breadth and scope of current feminist literary theories. The main focus is on the interrelationships between female identity and place, where place suggests both physical and metaphorical space.

Contenu

Introduction: Placing Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective by Anne E. Brown and Marjanne E. Goozé Mapping Identity Female Self-Definition and the African Community in Mariama Bâ's Epistolary Novel So Long a Letter by Eva Rueschmann (Re)Presenting the Self: Identity and Consciousness in the Feature Films of Safi Faye by Sheila J. Petty Sappho's Daughters: Lesbian Identities in Novels by Québécois Women (1960-1990) by Anne E. Brown Finding a Place for Christa Wolf: Gendered Identity in No Place on Earth by Marjanne E. Goozé Disrupting the Autonomous Self Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon: A Triangular Structure of Alienation by Arlette M. Smith Colonial Discourse and Female Identity: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine by Suzanne Kehde Fragmented Identities and the Process of Metamorphosis in Works by Lygia Fagundes Telles by Peggy Sharpe The "Imaginative Space" of Medbh McGuckian by Susan Porter Writing the Woman-Subject: Marguerite Duras, from Theory to Fiction by Anne-Marie Gronhovd Inner and Outer Space The Mysterious Space of Exile: Punishable Songs by Judith Grossmann by Susan Canty Quinlan Inner and Outer Space in the Works of Esther Rochon by Annick Chapdelaine Southern Africa and the Theme of Madness: Novels by Doris Lessing, Bessie Head, and Nadine Gordimer by Nancy Topping Bazin Dismantling the Master's Houses: Jean Rhys and West Indian Identity by Fiona Barnes Wild Child, Tropical Flower, Mad Wife: Female Identity in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea by Deanna Madden Resisting Oppressions Isabel Allende and the Discourse of Exile by Marketta Laurila Too Disconnected/Too Bound Up: The Paradox of Identity in Mercè Rodoreda's The Time of the Doves by Kayann Short Scientist and Mother: Portrait of the Heroine in I. Grekova's Fiction by Margareta Thompson Italian Women in Search of Identity in Dacia Maraini's Novels by Vera Golini Intercultural Space Naming the Unspeakable: The Mapping of Female Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior by Marlene Goldman Born of a Stranger: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club by Gloria Shen The Ambivalence of Mirroring and Female Bonding in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones by Laura Niesen de Abruña No Place for Identity - Jeannette Lander's Migrating Women's Aesthetic by Tobe Levin Expatriate Afro-American Women as Exotics by Marilyn Elkins