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

• Autore: Ramanathan Geetha
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.9112
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Literature); Women in literature; Gender identity in literature; Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Locating gender in modernism
• ISBN: 1-136-29127-X; 1-283-64251-4; 0-203-11449-3; 1-136-29128-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816521103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature