Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Devaleena Das, Sanjukta Dasgupta |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
Disciplina | 016.808839352 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature—History and criticism
Oriental literature Literature Literary History Asian Literature Postcolonial/World Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-50400-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Writing the Silence: Grieving Mothers and the Literature of War -- 2 Among the Reeds: A Lost Novel of Women’s Emancipation -- 3 Poetic Rivalry and Silent Love: Lawson’s Muse and Mary the Bard -- 4 Gothic Moods and Colonial Night Guests: Beatrice Grimshaw’s writings on Fiji -- 5 From Miles Franklin to Germaine Greer: Writing as Activism -- 6 Kate Grenville’s Transgressive Narratives -- 7 Disparate Visions: The Contesting Homefront Worlds of Gwen Harwood, Faith Richmond and Judith Wright (1939-45) -- 8 Made in Suburbia: Intra-Suburban Narratives in Contemporary Australian Women’s Fiction -- 9 ‘Properties of a Lady’s Pen’: The literary craft of Georgiana Molloy -- 10 Inner Space to Outer Space: Lesbian Writing in Australia -- 11 Possibilities from the Peripheries into the Urban Labyrinth: Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip -- 12 ‘The sex thing is strange’: The Queerness of Barbara Hanrahan’s Fiction -- 13 Australian Aboriginal Women’s Protest Poetry -- 14 Locating Indigenous Sovereign Spaces: Race and Womanhood in Romaine Morton's Poetry -- 15. Writing the Aboriginal Women’s Auto/biographical Experience: Jackie Huggins and Jeanine Leane -- 16 On Becoming an Australian: The Journey of Patricia Pengilley -- 17 Australianness in M. L. Skinner’s Exilic Novels -- 18 Transnation and Feminine Fluidity: New Horizon in the Fiction of Chandani Lokugé. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255089903321 |
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Unveiling Desire : Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East / / Devaleena Das, Colette Morrow |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 306.7082095 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AzimFirdous
BenedettiLavinia BettyLouis BiswasChandrani ChakravartyRadha ChananaKuhu Sharma DasDevaleena DeyNaina El-SaadawiNawal GangarAmrit HalderParamita JussawallaFeroza KhanHafiza Nilofar KuribayashiTomoko MalhotraMeenakshi MorrowColette |
Soggetto topico |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies Symbolism - Orient Femmes fatale - Orient Women - Sexual behavior - Orient |
Soggetto non controllato |
Eastern
damsel in distress damsel female feminism feminist gender helpless patriarchy social construct |
ISBN |
0-8135-8787-5
0-8135-8786-7 |
Classificazione | SOC028000PER004030LIT008000LIT004220 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword / El-Saadawi, Nawal -- Introduction / Das, Devaleena / Morrow, Colette -- Part I: Chastity, Fidelity, and Women's Cross-Cultural Encounters -- 1. Feminist Neoimperialism in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis / Morrow, Colette -- 2. The Forgotten Women of 1971: Bangladesh's Failure to Remember Rape Victims of the Liberation War / Azim, Firdous -- 3. Fragmented State, Fragmented Women: Reading Gender, Reading History in Partition Fiction / Halder, Paramita -- 4. The Trope of the "Fallen Women" in the Fiction of Bangladeshi Women Writers / Khan, Hafiza Nilofar -- Part II: Forbidden Desires and Misogynist Enculturation -- 5. Polyamorous Draupadi: Adharma or Emancipation? / Das, Devaleena -- 6. Damaged Goods! Managed Gods! Indian Cinema's Virtuous Hierarchies / Gangar, Amrit -- 7. Roop Taraashi: Sex, Culture, Violence, Impersonation, and the Politics of the Inner Sanctum / Dey, Naina -- Part III: Political Economy and Questioning Tradition in the Far East -- 8. More Than Just an Exchange of Fluids: Southeast Asian Prostitutes and the Western Sexual Economy / Betty, Louis -- 9. Representing Bad Women in Wu Zetian Si Da Qi'An: Political Criticism in Late Qing Crime Fiction / Benedetti, Lavinia -- 10. The Problematic Maternal in Moto Hagio's Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of "Iguana Girl" / Kuribayashi, Tomoko -- Part IV: Unchaste Goddesses and Transgressive Women in a Turbulent Nation -- 11. A Dark Goddess for a Fallen World: Mapping Apocalypse in Some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Novels / Malhotra, Meenakshi -- 12. Desire and Dharma: A Study of the Representation of Fallen Women in the Novels of Bankim Chandra / Biswas, Chandrani -- 13. The Fallen Woman in Bengali Literature: Binodini Dasi and Tagore's Chokher Bali / Chakravarty, Radha -- Part V: The Moral Frontiers of Lesbianism in the East -- 14. Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared / Jussawalla, Feroza -- 15. Homoeroticism and Reaccessing the Idea of "Fallen Woman" in Keval Sood's Murgikhana / Sharma Chanana, Kuhu -- Afterword / Das, Devaleena / Morrow, Colette -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910861072903321 |
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