... of this chapter is the intersection of gender and race in the writing, reading and interpretation of literary texts. The chapter focuses on the study of a full-length novel by a contemporary African-American woman: Alice Walker.
The volume investigates the ‘voice’ of women writers in the development of literary studies, and interrogates how scholars read and teach women’s literary texts.
... 8, 10 Edgren, Anne Charlotte Leffler (Anne Ch. Edgren, A. Ch. Leffler) 57, 58 Egerton, George 56, 60 Eide, Elisabeth S. 52, 61, 64 Eliassen, Rønnaug 95, 96 Eliot, George 54, 56, 59, 60, 62 Enchanted Boy, The (film) 84 English ...
Constructing Gender: Feminism and Literary Studies
Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing Paul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker. Marra , Michele . ... Pekarik , Andrew J. Japanese Lacquer , 1600-1900 : Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection .
Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2005); Joe Bray, The Female Reader in the English Novel: From Burney to Austen (London: Routledge, 2009).
By adding consideration of age to that of race, gender, and class, this innovative volume seeks to show how growing older affects literary creativity and psychological development and to examine...
Critiquing the fictive nature of socially accepted values about gender, the authors unravel the strategies adopted by writers and filmmakers in (de)constructing the gendered self in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.
Herein lies the broader reach of this volume, for understanding the longevity of patriarchy and its effects on human relations demonstrates how crucial the study of the past can be for us as a society today.