Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making
in modern and contemporary feminist writing. In evocative readings
of literary works from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, this book
expands our sense of transartistic modernist scholarship to
encompass process-oriented and medium-specific analyses of textile
arts, digital design, collage, photography, painting, and sculpture
in literary culture. By integrating these craft practices into the
book's enlightening archive, Elkins's theoretical argument extends
a reading of craft metaphors into the material present. Crafting
Feminism demonstrates how writers have engaged with handiwork
across generations and have undertaken the crafting of a new
modernity, one that is queer and feminist-threaded, messy,
shattered, cut-up, pasted together, preserved, repaired, reflected,
and spun out. An avant-garde work of scholarship, this book
interweaves queer research methods and interdisciplinary rigor with
a series of surprising archival discoveries. Making visible the
collaborative, creative features of craft, Elkins captivates
readers with generous illustrations and a series of "Techne"
interchapters-interludes between longer chapters, which powerfully
convey the symbiosis between feminist theory and method, and detail
the network of archival influences that underpin this volume's
hybrid approach. Foregrounding the work of decentering patriarchal
and Eurocentric legacies of artistic authority, Elkins champions
the diverse, intergenerational history of craft as a way to
reposition intersectional makers at the heart of literary culture.
An original and compelling study, Crafting Feminism breaks new
ground in modernist and visual studies, digital humanities, and
feminist, queer, and critical race theory.
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