If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is
metafeminism, a term coined by Lori Saint-Martin, that defines and
embraces that disorder. As a carefully devised reading practice,
metafeminism understands contemporary feminist literature and
theory as both recalling and extending the tropes and politics of
the past. In Cautiously Hopeful Marie Carrière brings together
seemingly disparate writing by Anglo-Canadian, Indigenous, and
Québécois women authors under the banner of metafeminism.
Familiarizing readers with major streams of feminist thought,
including intersectionality, affect theory, and care ethics,
Carrière shows how literary works by such authors as Dionne Brand,
Nicole Brossard, Naomi Fontaine, Larissa Lai, Tracey Lindberg, and
Rachel Zolf, among others, tackle the entanglement of gender with
race, settler-invader colonialism, heteronormativity,
positionality, language, and the posthuman condition. Meanwhile
tenable alliances among Indigenous women, women of colour, and
settler feminist practitioners emerge. Carrière's tone is personal
and accessible throughout - in itself a metafeminist gesture that
both encompasses and surpasses a familiar feminist form of writing.
Despite the growing anti-feminist backlash across media platforms
and in various spheres of political and social life, a hopefulness
animates this timely work that, like metafeminism, stands alert to
the challenges that feminism faces in its capacity to effect social
change in the twenty-first century.
General
Imprint: |
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Marie Carrière
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-228-00381-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-228-00381-4 |
Barcode: |
9780228003816 |
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