Haunting violations : feminist criticism and the crisis of the "real"

書誌事項

Haunting violations : feminist criticism and the crisis of the "real"

edited by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol

University of Illinois Press, c2001

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780252026102

内容説明

Feminist critics place a premium on the "real" stories told by the victimized and the oppressed. "Haunting Violations" offers a corrective to such uncritical acceptance of the "real" in confessional, testimonial, and ethnographic narratives. Through close readings of a wide variety of texts, contributors argue that depictions of the "real" are inherently performative, crafted within the limits and in the interests of specific personal, political, or social projects. "Haunting Violations" explores the inseparability of discourse and politics in quasi-autobiographical works such as "I", "Rigoberta Mench" and "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places". Contributors consider how the Sri Lankan Mother's Front movement exploits the sanctity of the maternal and how multiple political purposes on both sides bleed through government "documentary" photographs of Japanese-American concentration camp internees. This volume also investigates how South Asian feminists use the authority of their personal experience to critique the film Mississippi Masala and how realist narratives, such as Janet Campbell Hale's autobiographical "Bloodlines", Margie Strosser's documentary film "Rape Stories", and Shekur Kapur's film "Bandit Queen", reexamine how assumptions about power and trauma are embedded in the promise of the real.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780252069116

内容説明

'Feminist critics place a premium on the 'real' stories told by the victimized and the oppressed. "Haunting Violations" offers a corrective to such uncritical acceptance of the 'real' in confessional, testimonial, and ethnographic narratives. Through close readings of a wide variety of texts, contributors argue that depictions of the 'real' are inherently performative, crafted within the limits and in the interests of specific personal, political, or social projects."Haunting Violations" explores the inseparability of discourse and politics in quasi-autobiographical works such as "I", "Rigoberta Mench" and "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places". Contributors consider how the Sri Lankan Mother's Front movement exploits the sanctity of the maternal and how multiple political purposes on both sides bleed through government 'documentary' photographs of Japanese-American concentration camp internees. This volume also investigates how South Asian feminists use the authority of their personal experience to critique the film "Mississippi Masala" and how realist narratives, such as Janet Campbell Hale's autobiographical "Bloodlines", Margie Strosser's documentary film "Rape Stories", and Shekur Kapur's film "Bandit Queen", reexamine how assumptions about power and trauma are embedded in the promise of the real'.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA54972167
  • ISBN
    • 0252026101
    • 0252069110
  • LCCN
    00009240
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Urbana
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 292 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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