LEADER 03931nam 22004935 450 001 9910272353503321 005 20220413233843.0 010 $a1-5017-2302-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501723025 035 $a(CKB)4340000000258202 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5317508 035 $a(DE-B1597)496641 035 $a(OCoLC)1041980683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501723025 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000258202 100 $a20190615d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aBorderwork $efeminist engagements with comparative literature /$fMargaret R. Higonnet 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©1994 215 $a1 online resource (338 pages) 225 0 $aReading Women Writing 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-2869-6 311 $a0-8014-8107-4 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction /$rHigonnet, Margaret R. --$tPART I. CROSS-CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF FEMALE SUBJECTS --$t1. Dissymmetry Embodied: Feminism, Universalism, and the Practice of Excision /$rLionnet, Fran(:oise --$t2. "Changing Masters" : Gender, Genre, and the Discourses of Slavery /$rBrodzki, Bella --$t3. Life after Rape: Narrative, Theory, and Feminism /$rRajan, Rajeswari Sunder --$tPART II. GENRE THEORY --$t4. Modifications of Genre: A Feminist Critique of "Christabel" and "Die Braut von Korinth" /$rMetzger, Lore --$t5. Female Difficulties, Comparativist Challenge: Novels by English and German Women, 1752-1814 /$rCullens, Chris --$t6. Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence /$rVlasopolos, Anca --$t7. Cassandra's Question: Do Women Write War Novels? /$rHigonnet, Margaret R. --$t8. Jane' s Family Romances /$rHirsch, Marianne --$tPART III. SITES OF CRITICAL PRACTICE --$t9. Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny /$rMiller, Nancy K. --$t10. One Must Go Quickly from One Light into Another: Between Ingeborg Bachmann and Jacques Derrida /$rGolz, Sabine I. --$t11. Dangerous Crossings: Gender and Criticism in Arabic Literary Studies /$rFedwa, Malti-Douglas --$t12. Identity Politics as a Comparative Poetics /$rGaard, Greta --$tPART IV. FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS --$t13. Cross Fire and Collaboration among Comparative Literature, Feminism, and the New Historicism /$rWebster Goodwin, Sarah --$t14. Talking Shop: A Comparative Feminist Approach to Caribbean Literature by Women /$rVeve, A. Clark --$t15. Compared to What? Global Feminism, Comparatism, and the Master' s Tools /$rSniader Lanser, Susan --$t16. Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology /$rObioma, Nnaemeka --$tNotes on Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aThe first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts the intellectual and institutional boundaries on that discipline. The seventeen essays collected here, most published for the first time, together call for the contextualization of the study of comparative literature within the areas of discourse, culture, ideology, race, and gender. Contributors: Bella Brodzki, VèVè A. Clark, Chris Cullens, Greta Gaard, Sabine Gölz, Sarah Webster Goodwin, Margaret R. Higonnet, Marianne Hirsch, Susan Sniader Lanser, Françoise Lionnet, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Lore Metzger, Nancy K. Miller, Obioma Nnaemakea, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Anca Vlasopolos. 410 0$aReading women writing. 606 $aFeminist literary criticism 606 $aComparative literature 615 0$aFeminist literary criticism. 615 0$aComparative literature. 676 $a809/.89287 702 $aHigonnet$b Margaret R. 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272353503321 996 $aBorderwork$91265505 997 $aUNINA