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Women and Water in Global Fiction (Hardcover)
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Women and Water in Global Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
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Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions
of the feminine, and therefore with orthodox constructions of
femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital
importance of water as life force, which has given it a central
place in cultural vocabularies worldwide. These symbolic economies,
in turn, inform the discourses through which positive or negative
associations of women with water come to bear impact on the social
positioning of female gendered identities. Women and Water in
Global Fiction brings together an array of studies of this
phenomenon as seen in writing by and about women from around the
world. The literature explored in this volume works to make
visible, decodify, celebrate, and challenge the cultural
associations made between female gendered identities and all kinds
of watery tropes, as well as their consequences for key issues
connected to women, society, and the environment. The collection
investigates the roots of such symbolisms, examines how they inform
women's place in the socio-cultural orders of diverse global
cultures, and shows how the female authors in question use these
tropes in their work as ways of (re)articulating female identities
and their correlative roles.
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