Mappings : : Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter / / Susan Stanford Friedman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Friedman, Susan Stanford,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: Core Textbook
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 3 halftones 1 chart

In this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed. Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity. Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Gloria Anzald%a, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, and Irena Klepfisz. Defending the pioneering role of academic feminists in the knowledge revolution, this work draws on a wide variety of twentieth-century cultural expressions to address theoretical issues in postmodern feminism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Locational Feminism -- PART I: FEMINISM/MULTICULTURALISM -- CHAPTER 1. "Beyond" Gender: The New Geography of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism -- CHAPTER 2. "Beyond" White and Other: Narratives of Race in Feminist Discourse -- CHAPTER 3. "Beyond" Difference: Migratory Feminism in the Borderlands -- PART II: FEMINISM/GLOBALISM -- CHAPTER 4. Geopolitical Literacy: Internationalizing Feminism at "Home"- The Case of Virginia Woolf -- CHAPTER 5. Telling Contacts: Intercultural Encounters and Narrative Poetics in the Borderlands between Literary Studies and Anthropology -- CHAPTER 6. "Routes/Roots": Boundaries, Borderlands, and Geopolitical Narratives of Identity -- PART III: FEMINISM/POSTSTRUCTURALISM -- CHAPTER 7. Negotiating the Transatlantic Divide: Feminism after Poststructuralism -- CHAPTER 8. Making History: Reflections on Feminism, Narrative, and Desire -- CHAPTER 9. Craving Stories: Narrative and Lyric in Feminist Theory and Poetic Practice -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX