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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785989703321

Autore

Ramanathan Geetha

Titolo

Locating gender in modernism : the outsider female / / Geetha Ramanathan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-29127-X

1-283-64251-4

0-203-11449-3

1-136-29128-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 25

Disciplina

809/.9112

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Women in literature

Gender identity in literature

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The female outsider in the modern -- Modernisms and the woman in history -- Figuring the female in modern realisms -- Magical women in the modern -- Modern women in feminist realisms.

Sommario/riassunto

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist ""universals"" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the