Category: Women Authors

By Wendy Arons

ISBN-10: 0230600735

ISBN-13: 9780230600737

ISBN-10: 1403973296

ISBN-13: 9781403973290

In functionality and Femininity, Arons examines a sequence of texts by way of eighteenth-century German girls in an effort to remove darkness from how girls writers of the time used theater and function either to enquire girl subjectivity and to intrude within the dominant cultural discourse of femininity. Arons's examine specializes in works that includes heroines who, for the main part--like their authors--lead lives with public dimensions, basically by way of operating as actresses.  The texts she chooses all name awareness to the problems that the eighteenth-century belief of the self as honest and antitheatrical awarded for women.  via highlighting the truth that the social viewers that determines a woman's acceptance is sort of continually a fickle and untrustworthy "reader" of woman subjectivity, those works disclose the untenable place into which the discourse of sincerity positioned ladies, sarcastically requiring them to accomplish the very naivet? that used to be, by way of definition, now not speculated to be performable. Arons's unique argument takes an interdisciplinary strategy, drawing from the fields of literary feedback, cultural stories, theatre heritage, and function reviews, and divulges how those ladies writers uncovered perfect femininity as an most unlikely act, at the same time they tried to breed that act of their writing and of their lives.

By Anne Carson

The Albertine exercise routine comprises fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson's examine on Albertine, the primary love curiosity of Marcel in Proust's À los angeles recherche du temps perdu.

By L. Palazzo

ISBN-10: 0230504671

ISBN-13: 9780230504677

ISBN-10: 0333920333

ISBN-13: 9780333920336

Learn within the context of rising nineteenth Century women's theology, Rossetti's devotional prose indicates a different choice for the "wisdom texts" of scripture, and foreshadows the paintings of major feminist theologians this day. This quantity disputes the idea that Rossetti used to be a follower of Keble and Pusey, and exhibits how her dissatisfaction with the male-dominated name to celibacy led her to reject their notions of worldliness, and to shape a more in-depth bond with the actual global and the physique.

By Adriana Mendez Rodenas

ISBN-10: 0585033110

ISBN-13: 9780585033112

ISBN-10: 0826512992

ISBN-13: 9780826512994

Writer of novels, memoirs, and commute writings, Maria de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, higher referred to as los angeles Condesa de Merlin (1789-1852), is arguably one among Cuba's most attractive authors; but beforehand her works have long past mostly missed. Born in colonial Havana to an aristocratic Creole relatives, the long run countess of Merlin left Cuba for Spain at an early age. Later, her marriage to the French count number Antoine Christophe Merlin and the invasion of French Napoleonic troops brought on one other flow to France, the place she grew to become one of many belle dames of Paris and commenced her literary profession. She again just once to Cuba after the demise of her husband in 1840, a trip that produced Viaje a los angeles Habana. Upon her go back to Paris, Merlin improved this into los angeles Havane, an bold three-volume account of the political, social, and financial association of the island. From the perspective of feminist and psychoanalytical thought, Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba brilliantly explores the various ways that problems with gender have contributed to Merlin's digital absence from the canons of literature and from the discourses on Cuban nationwide identification. Merlin's double id as either Cuban and French is symbolic of the Cuban exiled situation, a truth taken up by means of modern exiled Cuban writers who see the countess as an alter-ego.Mendez Rodenas seeks to revive Merlin because the first lady author in Cuban literary heritage to articulate a feeling of nationwide identification, in addition to being Cuba's first girl historian. She makes a speciality of Merlin's trip writings simply because they research such matters as slavery, independence, nationhood, the position of ladies, schooling, and native literature. jointly her writings build another, gendered background of nineteenth-century Cuba that needs to be said as either useful and authentic.By situating Merlin on the intersection of the discourses of gender and nationalism, Mendez Rodenas finds not just her pioneering function but in addition the necessity to extend present severe different types to account for the specificity of the Latin American literary culture. within the technique of restoring Merlin to her acceptable position within the canon of Latin American literature, she broadens our knowing of colonial Cuban heritage and expands our wisdom of the ways that commute writing can impact a country's nationwide literature .

By Susanne Woods

ISBN-10: 0195124847

ISBN-13: 9780195124842

ISBN-10: 0195352343

ISBN-13: 9780195352344

Aemilia Bassano Lanyer released poetry to and for girls in 1611, on the peak of the mostly misogynistic reign of James I. Her verse enhances and extends our view of her contemporaries, comparable to Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne, whose paintings in flip presents a context for her distinct and fascinating voice. This publication situates Lanyer in the wealthy culture of Jacobean poetry.

By Ayana I. Karanja

ISBN-10: 0820428574

ISBN-13: 9780820428574

Filtered via black womanist views, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new floor via innovation and mind's eye, through fusing interpretive tools in ethnographic writing and literary reports. Intrinsically referencing modern epistemological concerns in ethnographic writing and literary canonicity, Dr. Karanja illuminates fragments of Hurston's existence via an exploration of her novels and folklore collections. In doing so, she bridges disciplines to build a postmodern textual content that «speaks» without delay and formidably to oral literature and to the writer's and reader's collaboration within the construction of textual meanings.

By K. Zauditu-Selassie

ISBN-10: 0813033284

ISBN-13: 9780813033280

By Susan Sellers

ISBN-10: 0333720148

ISBN-13: 9780333720141

ISBN-10: 1403919208

ISBN-13: 9781403919205

Lady as gorgon, girl as temptress: the classical and biblical mythology which has ruled Western pondering defines girls in various patriarchally encoded roles. This examine addresses the astonishing patience of legendary effect in modern fiction. establishing with the query 'what is myth?', the 1st part presents a wide-ranging evaluate of mythography. It lines how myths were perceived and interpreted through such commentators as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Bruno Bettelheim, Roland Barthes, Jack Zipes and Marina Warner. This results in an exam of the function that mythic narrative performs in social and self formation, drawing at the literary, feminist and psychoanalytic theories of Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous and Judith Butler to delineate the ways that women's mythos can go beyond the restrictions of emblems and provides upward thrust to effective new versions for person and cultural regeneration.
In this mild, Susan bargains tough new readings of a variety of modern women's fiction, together with works through A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Anne Rice, Michele Roberts, Emma Tennant and Fay Weldon. issues explored comprise fairy story as erotic fiction, new spiritual writing, vampires and gender-bending, mythic moms, style fiction, the still-persuasive paradigm of female attractiveness, and the novel strength of comedy.

By Rafika Merini

ISBN-10: 0820426350

ISBN-13: 9780820426358

Probably the most greatly stated attributes of Francophone literature regularly is that it brings wideranging socio-political matters to endure on literary conception, worldviews, and historic occasions. This research brings to gentle the ensuing implications of this truth at the common topics of femininity underlying the originating, unveiling, and demystifying that take place within the works of 2 of the best-known and so much hugely complete ladies writers of North African beginning - Assia Djébar and Leïla Sebbar. This research additionally matters itself with those writers' texts and intertexts of their dating with cultural manifestations and with language.

By Angela Carter

ISBN-10: 1844083772

ISBN-13: 9781844083770

A blinding meditation on women's sexual freedom