Overview

First published in 2000.This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and South African writer Zoe Wicomb. The author draws from post-colonial studies and considers how gender collides with race, national origin, and class in women's oppression.

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Author:   Constance S. Richards
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138977549

ISBN 10:   1138977543
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   26 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- CHAPTER 1 Toward a Transnational Feminist Writing and Reading Practice -- Decolonizing Empire: Approaches to Postcolonial Studies -- Decolonizing Literature: Canons and Countercanons -- When It Rains It Pours: Women of The Tempest -- Transnational Feminism and Anticolonial Reading -- Intervention and Invention as Transnational Feminist Practice -- CHAPTER 2 Virginia Woolf: A Critique from the Center of Empire -- “[T]he things people don’t say”: Silence as a Critique of Empire in The Voyage Out -- Parody and the Critique of the Colonial Project: Between the Acts -- Comic Colonials and Complicit Intellectuals -- CHAPTER 3 Transnational Feminist Reading: The Case of Cape Town -- ...like living on shifting sands”: Protest Literature in South Africa -- Troubling Racial Hegemony: “Post”-Protest Literature -- A Novel for a New South Africa -- CHAPTER 4 Exoticism to Transnational Feminism: Alice Walker -- Africa and Walker’s Literary Imagination -- The Color Purple -- The Temple of My Familiar -- Possessing The Secret of Joy -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Richards generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in her book. By catching the currents of postcolonial thought and cross-linking them with feminist literary criticism, she gives another boost to the scholarhsip in the field. -- Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College, Woolf Studies Annual

""Richards generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in her book. By catching the currents of postcolonial thought and cross-linking them with feminist literary criticism, she gives another boost to the scholarhsip in the field."" -- Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College, Woolf Studies Annual

Richards generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in her book. By catching the currents of postcolonial thought and cross-linking them with feminist literary criticism, she gives another boost to the scholarhsip in the field. -Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College, Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 8, 2002

Richards generates a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in her book. By catching the currents of postcolonial thought and cross-linking them with feminist literary criticism, she gives another boost to the scholarhsip in the field. -Tuzyline Jita Allan, Baruch College, Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 8, 2002

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