Going global : the transnational reception of Third World women writers

Author(s)

• Amireh, Amal
• Majaj, Suhair

Bibliographic Information

Going global : the transnational reception of Third World women writers

edited by Amal Amireh and Lisa Suhair Majaj

（Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 2194 . Wellesley studies in critical theory, literary history, and culture ; v. 27）

Garland Pub., 2000

• : [hbk.]
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: [hbk.] ISBN 9780815336051

Description

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780815336068

Description

This book explores the problematic of reading and writing about third world women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this volume examine the reception, both academic and popular, of women writers from India, Bangladesh, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Iraq/Israel and Australia. The essays focus on what happens to these writers' poetry, fiction, biography, autobiography, and even to the authors themselves, as they move between the third and first worlds. The essays raise general questions about the politics of reception and about the transnational character of cultural production and consumption. This edition also provides analyses of the reception of specific texts - and of their authors - in their context of origin as well as the diverse locations in which they are read. The essay participate in on-going discussions about the politics of location, about postcolonialism and its discontents, and about the projects of feminism and multiculturalism in a global age.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, AMAL AMIREH, LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ
• Part I Women's Texts, Global Scripts
• Chapter 1 The Triumphant Discourse of Global Feminism: Should Other Women Be Known?, MARNIA LAZREG
• Chapter 2 An Affair to Remember: Scripted Performances in the "Nasreen Affair", BISHNUPRIYA GHOSH
• Chapter 3 Palestinian Women and the Politics of Reception, THERESE SALIBA, JEANNE KATTAN
• Part II The Writer as Text
• Chapter 4 Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reception of Latin American Testimonios, EVA PAULINO BUENO
• Chapter 5 Packaging "Huda": Sha'rawi's Memoirs in the United States Reception Environment, MOHJA KAHF
• Chapter 6 Identity and Community in Autobiographies of Algerian Women in France, PATRICIA GEESEY
• Part III Resistant Readings
• Chapter 7 "Sharp contrasts of all colours": The Legacy of Toru Dutt, ALPANA SHARMA KNIPPLING
• Chapter 8 Grim Fairy Tales: Taking a Risk, Reading Imaginary Maps, JENNIFER WENZEL
• Chapter 9 Trajectories of Change: The Politics of Reading Postcolonial Women's Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom, SALLY Mc WILLIAMS
• Chapter 10 Coming to America: Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss, ELLA SHOHAT

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Details

• NCID: BA48912910
• ISBN:
  • 0815336055
  • 0815336063
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 308 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 809/.89287/091724
  • LCC : PN849.U43
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Developing countries -- Literatures -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Developing countries -- Literatures -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- Developing countries
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0013663X