Feminist critical negotiations

This volume is a collection of original contributions in the field of feminist critical theory which reflect upon past practices and suggest new strategies and directions for future work. The articles are presented in two non-exclusive, interactive sections: "Theorizing Feminist Criticism" and "The Feminist Writing Subject". They offer different points of entry into the familiar debates that have dominated feminist literary criticism for over a decade. The contributions stage negotiations with literary critical and feminist theory which are productive of different perspectives and new strategies for reading and writing.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Part I. Theorizing Feminist Criticism
• 3. Feminist Theory as a Practice (by Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds)
• 4. Bluebeard's Daughters: Pretexts for Pre-Texts (by Marcus, Jane)
• 5. Fredric Jameson's Critique of Ethical Criticism: A Deconstructed Marxist Feminist Response (by Martindale, Kathleen)
• 6. "Places in the World a Woman Could Walk": The Woman Reader and the Female Spectator as "Transvestite" (by Herrmann, Anne)
• 7. Plots to a Happy Ending: Re-Reading Closure (by Broeck-Sallah, Sabine)
• 8. Part II. The Feminist Writing Subject
• 9. Critical Negotiations: Calling Feminism Out of Its Name (by Parker, Alice A.)
• 10. The Golden Notebook: Anna Wulf's Schizoanalysis (by Kauffman, Linda)
• 11. A Gaze of One's Own: Narrativizing the Caribbean: An Essay on Critical Fiction (by Zavala, Iris M.)
• 12. Ananas/Pineapple (by Jouve, Nicole Ward)
• 13. The Given and the Created: The Infinite Cities of Language (by Diaz-Diocaretz, Myriam)
• 14. Writing as a Trajectory of Desire and Consciousness (by Brossard, Nicole)
• 15. Contributors

This volume is a collection of original contributions in the field of feminist critical theory which reflect upon past practices and suggest new strategies and directions for future work. The articles are presented in two non-exclusive, interactive sections: "Theorizing Feminist Criticism" and "The Feminist Writing Subject". They offer different points of entry into the familiar debates that have dominated feminist literary criticism for over a decade. The contributions stage negotiations with literary critical and feminist theory which are productive of different perspectives and new strategies for reading and writing.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Part I. Theorizing Feminist Criticism
• 3. Feminist Theory as a Practice (by Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds)
• 4. Bluebeard's Daughters: Pretexts for Pre-Texts (by Marcus, Jane)
• 5. Fredric Jameson's Critique of Ethical Criticism: A Deconstructed Marxist Feminist Response (by Martindale, Kathleen)
• 6. "Places in the World a Woman Could Walk": The Woman Reader and the Female Spectator as "Transvestite" (by Herrmann, Anne)
• 7. Plots to a Happy Ending: Re-Reading Closure (by Broeck-Sallah, Sabine)
• 8. Part II. The Feminist Writing Subject
• 9. Critical Negotiations: Calling Feminism Out of Its Name (by Parker, Alice A.)
• 10. The Golden Notebook: Anna Wulf's Schizoanalysis (by Kauffman, Linda)
• 11. A Gaze of One's Own: Narrativizing the Caribbean: An Essay on Critical Fiction (by Zavala, Iris M.)
• 12. Ananas/Pineapple (by Jouve, Nicole Ward)
• 13. The Given and the Created: The Infinite Cities of Language (by Diaz-Diocaretz, Myriam)
• 14. Writing as a Trajectory of Desire and Consciousness (by Brossard, Nicole)
• 15. Contributors

This volume is a collection of original contributions in the field of feminist critical theory which reflect upon past practices and suggest new strategies and directions for future work. The articles are presented in two non-exclusive, interactive sections: "Theorizing Feminist Criticism" and "The Feminist Writing Subject". They offer different points of entry into the familiar debates that have dominated feminist literary criticism for over a decade. The contributions stage negotiations with literary critical and feminist theory which are productive of different perspectives and new strategies for reading and writing.