Overview
This volume explores how the concepts of space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It discusses the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts. The arguments within the book connect core theoretical issues of gender and space to well-known literary texts and contexts, like the poems of Sylvia Plath and the novels of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison and Cormack McCarthy. The collection will be of interest to university students and instructors alike, as an extended introduction to critical and theoretical discourses on gender and space.
Full Product Details
Author: Ágnes Zsófia Kovács ,
László B. Sári
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781443898768
ISBN 10: 1443898767
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 12 January 2017
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Thus, the compilation of essays we are presented with in Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art takes us on a highly engaging intellectual journey where we are constantly reminded that the neatly separated spaces of our roles, positions, lives, practices, traditions, knowledges, and spaces are somehow always already beyond themselves, permeated by differences and contradictions that we have to face, turning our gaze towards the past and present hybridity of our ever-challenging human existence.'Andrea Toth, Normative Senses of Spaces, Radical Places of Genders, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (25.1). (2019)
'Thus, the compilation of essays we are presented with in Space, Gender, and the Gaze in Literature and Art takes us on a highly engaging intellectual journey where we are constantly reminded that the neatly separated spaces of our roles, positions, lives, practices, traditions, knowledges, and spaces are somehow always already beyond themselves, permeated by differences and contradictions that we have to face, turning our gaze towards the past and present hybridity of our ever-challenging human existence.'Andrea Tóth, Normative Senses of Spaces, Radical Places of Genders, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (25.1). (2019)
Author Information
Ágnes Zsófia Kovács is Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She is the author of The Function of the Imagination in the Writings of Henry James: The Production of a Civilized Experience (2006) and Reading in Context (2010).László B. Sári is Associate Professor at the Department of Literatures and Cultures in English of the University of Pécs, Hungary, where he teaches contemporary American fiction, British film history, literary and cultural studies, and literary translation. He is the author of A hattyú és a görény: kritikai vázlatok irodalomra és politikára [The Swan and the Polecat: Critical Approaches to Literature and Politics] (2006) and Joe csikorgó fogsora vagyok: Vázlat a kortárs amerikai minimalista prózára [I am Joe's Grinding Teeth: A Sketch of American Minimalist Prose] (2014).
