Women Writing Across Cultures

Present, past, future

Pelagia Goulimari

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780367336653
• eBook ISBN: 9781351586269
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: "woman," "writing," "women's writing," and "across." "Culture" is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses?

The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. "Writing across" assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction. Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future
• 1 A Symbiological Approach to Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Anthropocene
• 2 Is There Such a Thing as “Woman Writing”? Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler and Writing as Gendered Experience
• 3 From Symptom to the Symbolization of Receptivity: A Girl’s Psychoanalytic Journey
• 4 Theorizing Closeness: A Trans Feminist Conversation
• 5 Spreading the Word: The “Woman Question” in the Periodicals A Voz Feminina and O Progresso (1868–69)
• 6 Encounter with the Mirror of the Other: Angela Carter and her Personal Connection with Japan
• 7 Transnational Theatrical Representation of the Aging: Velina Hasu Houston’s Calligraphy
• 8 Tracing Back Trauma: The Legacy of Slavery in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature by Women
• 9 To be or Not to be Métis: Nina Bouraoui’s Embodied Memory of the Colonial Fracture
• 10 Constructing Selfhood through Re-voicing the Classical Past: Bernardine Evaristo, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Robin Coste Lewis
• 11 Faith, Family, and Memory in the Diaries of Jane Attwater, 1766–1834
• 12 Women’s Voices of Renewal within Tradition: The Women of the Wall of Jerusalem
• 13 Attitudes to Futurity in New German Feminisms and Contemporary Women’s Fiction
• 14 “Aulinhas de Sedução” [Small Lessons in Seduction]: Clarice Lispector on How (Not) to be a Woman
• 15 “Does Feminism Have a Generation Gap?”: Blogging, Millennials and the Hip Hop Generation
• 16 Feminist to Postfeminist: Contemporary Biofictions by and about Women Artists
• 17 Practice and Cultural Politics of “Women’s Script”: Nüshu as an Endangered Heritage in Contemporary China
• 18 “My main job is to translate / pain into tales they can tolerate // in another language”: Women’s Poetry and the Health Humanities
• 19 Love in the Novels of Toni Morrison
• 20 Ethical Ways of Seeing the Female Nude in Spanish Cinema
• 21 On or about December 1930: Gender and the Writing of Lives in Virginia Woolf
• 22 Writing as a “sie”: Reflections on Barbara Köhler’s Odyssey Cycle Niemands Frau
• 23 They
• 24 Gendered Expectations: Writing Counter to my Gender
• 25 Writing Men Imagining Women
• Index