New Women's Writing : Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Women's Poetry, First World War and Working Class Experience in British Munition Factories -- Atoms, Freud and Gender in Nature -- Otherness as Philosophy -- Children of the Windrush and the Question of Identity -- "Free! Body and Soul Free!" -- Space as a Psychological Resource in Dorothy Parker's Short Stories -- The Creative Elle in Colette's Incomplete Autofiction Gigi -- (En)Gendering Travelogy in Lessing and Morrison -- "Who Am I?" -- Bestial Representations of Otherness in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales -- Sisterly Reflections -- A Grandmother's Seduction -- The Female Prometheus -- My Waist, My Foot, My Breast -- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Crescent and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life -- Caste, Gender, and Violence -- Bridging the Binaries of Gender Construction in Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction -- Jewish Hummingbirds and the Converted Voice -- About the Contributors.

The uptake of women's writing as a distinct genre in literature since the 1960s has been rapid and multifarious. This development has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies, and can be seen in the growing influence of women's and gender studies even in literary studies programs. The study of women's writing has alerted literature to crucial social, political and cultural problems with which the discipline must continue to grapple.New Women's Writing addresses this legacy and reflects upon the following questions: What is a critical history of women's writing? How has women's writing challenged literature's rigid disciplinary construction? How can we derive a distinct philosophy of women's writing and literary studies? How does an engagement with women's writing contribute to a literary understanding of the complex politics of literature?This book is designed to interest both the seasoned scholar of women's writing, as well as fledgling scholars who wish to grapple with the broad concept of women's writing and its manifestations in the twentieth century and thereafter.

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