Borderwork : : feminist engagements with comparative literature / / Margaret R. Higonnet.

• TeilnehmendeR: Higonnet, Margaret R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Reading women writing.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

The first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender. Contributors: Bella Brodzki, VèVè A. Clark, Chris Cullens, Greta Gaard, Sabine Gölz, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret R. Higonnet, Marianne Hirsch, Susan Sniader Lanser, Françoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Lore Metzger, Nancy K. Miller, Obioma Nnaemakea, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Anca Vlasopolos.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Higonnet, Margaret R. -- PART I. CROSS-CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF FEMALE SUBJECTS -- 1. Dissymmetry Embodied: Feminism, Universalism, and the Practice of Excision / Lionnet, Fran(:oise -- 2. "Changing Masters" : Gender, Genre, and the Discourses of Slavery / Brodzki, Bella -- 3. Life after Rape: Narrative, Theory, and Feminism / Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder -- PART II. GENRE THEORY -- 4. Modifications of Genre: A Feminist Critique of "Christabel" and "Die Braut von Korinth" / Metzger, Lore -- 5. Female Difficulties, Comparativist Challenge: Novels by English and German Women, 1752-1814 / Cullens, Chris -- 6. Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence / Vlasopolos, Anca -- 7. Cassandra's Question: Do Women Write War Novels? / Higonnet, Margaret R. -- 8. Jane' s Family Romances / Hirsch, Marianne -- PART III. SITES OF CRITICAL PRACTICE -- 9. Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny / Miller, Nancy K. -- 10. One Must Go Quickly from One Light into Another: Between Ingeborg Bachmann and Jacques Derrida / Golz, Sabine I. -- 11. Dangerous Crossings: Gender and Criticism in Arabic Literary Studies / Fedwa, Malti-Douglas -- 12. Identity Politics as a Comparative Poetics / Gaard, Greta -- PART IV. FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS -- 13. Cross Fire and Collaboration among Comparative Literature, Feminism, and the New Historicism / Webster Goodwin, Sarah -- 14. Talking Shop: A Comparative Feminist Approach to Caribbean Literature by Women / Veve, A. Clark -- 15. Compared to What? Global Feminism, Comparatism, and the Master' s Tools / Sniader Lanser, Susan -- 16. Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology / Obioma, Nnaemeka -- Notes on Contributors -- Index