Borderwork
Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Published on 9. November 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-0-8014-8107-9 (ISBN)
Description
The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender. Contributors: Bella Brodzki, VeVe A. Clark, Chris Cullens, Greta Gaard, Sabine Goelz, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret R. Higonnet, Marianne Hirsch, Susan Sniader Lanser, Francoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Lore Metzger, Nancy K. Miller, Obioma Nnaemakea, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Anca Vlasopolos.
Reviews / Votes
"Disciplinary borders and the recontextualization of fields are central to Borderwork's project to bring feminist critical perspectives to bear on the field of comparative literature. The new feminist comparative literature articulated here has moved closer to its disciplinary younger cousin, cultural studies." -- Judith Kegan Gardiner * Signs *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
28 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-8107-9 (9780801481079)
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Person
Margaret R. Higonnet is Professor of English Emerita at the University of Connecticut. She is the editor of Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War and Lines of Fire: Women Writers on World War I, among many other books.