Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers

Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers
ISBN-10
1317954084
ISBN-13
9781317954088
Series
Going Global
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
2014-05-01
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Amal Amireh, Lisa Suhair Majaj

Description

This book explores the problematic of reading and writing about third world women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. The ten essays contained in this volume examine the reception, both academic and popular, of women writers from India, Bangladesh, Palestine, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Iraq/Israel and Australia. The essays focus on what happens to these writers' poetry, fiction, biography, autobiography, and even to the authors themselves, as they move between the third and first worlds. The essays raise general questions about the politics of reception and about the transnational character of cultural production and consumption. This edition also provides analyses of the reception of specific texts - and of their authors - in their context of origin as well as the diverse locations in which they are read. The essay participate in on-going discussions about the politics of location, about postcolonialism and its discontents, and about the projects of feminism and multiculturalism in a global age.

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