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That literature is a form of social action has been an implicit
assumption of feminist literary criticism since its emergence in
academia some twenty-five years ago. This assumption has served not
only to heighten the awareness of gender construction and response
in literature, but also to redefine the process and goals of
literary criticism itself.
Three powerful interviews with writers of different nationalities
(Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, and Carmen Naranjo) introduce
topics echoed in the essays that follow: the interplay between
women's writing and feminist theory, the politics of writing, and
the roles of race, class, and sexual orientation in artistic
production. These issues are engaged on a theoretical level by
three essays that represent today's most prominent areas of concern
for feminist literary criticism. The theoretical perspectives
advanced in this anthology provide models for reading the
traditional expressions of women worldwide including oratory and
performance as well as literature in the more conventional sense.
Contributors include Jane Flax on "Postmodernism and Gender
Relations in Feminist Theory," Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,"
Paula Bennett on "Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Psychoanalytic
Theory," Leslie Rabine on "Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the
Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," Joyce Zonana on "Feminist
Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre," Jane Desmond on
"Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's 'Radha' of 1906," Terri
Brint Joseph on "Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian
Berber Women," Chikwenye Ogunyemi on "The Contemporary Black Female
Novelin English," and Sandra Zagarell on "Narrative of Community."
This collection is especially appropriate for scholars and students
of feminist literary criticism, women's studies, English, and
ethnic studies.
Essays were originally published in Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society.
That literature is a form of social action has been an implicit
assumption of feminist literary criticism since its emergence in
academia some twenty-five years ago. This assumption has served not
only to heighten the awareness of gender construction and response
in literature, but also to redefine the process and goals of
literary criticism itself.
Three powerful interviews with writers of different nationalities
(Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, and Carmen Naranjo) introduce
topics echoed in the essays that follow: the interplay between
women's writing and feminist theory, the politics of writing, and
the roles of race, class, and sexual orientation in artistic
production. These issues are engaged on a theoretical level by
three essays that represent today's most prominent areas of concern
for feminist literary criticism. The theoretical perspectives
advanced in this anthology provide models for reading the
traditional expressions of women worldwide including oratory and
performance as well as literature in the more conventional sense.
Contributors include Jane Flax on "Postmodernism and Gender
Relations in Feminist Theory," Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,"
Paula Bennett on "Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Psychoanalytic
Theory," Leslie Rabine on "Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the
Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," Joyce Zonana on "Feminist
Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre," Jane Desmond on
"Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's 'Radha' of 1906," Terri
Brint Joseph on "Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian
Berber Women," Chikwenye Ogunyemi on "The Contemporary Black Female
Novelin English," and Sandra Zagarell on "Narrative of Community."
This collection is especially appropriate for scholars and students
of feminist literary criticism, women's studies, English, and
ethnic studies.
Essays were originally published in Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society.
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