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Richards, Constance S.

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Toward a transnational feminist writing and reading practice: Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Zoe Wicomb.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Toward a transnational feminist writing and reading practice: Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Zoe Wicomb./
Author:	Richards, Constance S.
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3009.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9639338
ISBN:	0591051338

Toward a transnational feminist writing and reading practice: Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Zoe Wicomb.
Richards, Constance S.

Toward a transnational feminist writing and reading practice: Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Zoe Wicomb. - 242 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3009.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1996.

This dissertation rests upon two basic assumptions concerning the industry of literature. First, while hegemonic versions of postmodern theory may claim that the author is dead, writing literature continues to be a viable arena for the exploration of the subject, and as such, a radical act for women and for all who have been silenced. Second, this study claims that creating, reading, and writing about literature provide an opportunity to explore ourselves and to build alliances with others.

ISBN: 0591051338Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Toward a transnational feminist writing and reading practice: Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Zoe Wicomb.
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520 $a This dissertation rests upon two basic assumptions concerning the industry of literature. First, while hegemonic versions of postmodern theory may claim that the author is dead, writing literature continues to be a viable arena for the exploration of the subject, and as such, a radical act for women and for all who have been silenced. Second, this study claims that creating, reading, and writing about literature provide an opportunity to explore ourselves and to build alliances with others.
520 $a Edward Said insists upon a reciprocal relationship between culture and the maintenance of Western empire. Chapter One focuses in part on the centrality of Shakespeare's The Tempest as a master narrative of colonial discourse. Postcolonial re-workings of the play offer one method of investigating the power relations inherent in master narrative forms of literature. Transnational feminism is offered as a method of anti-colonial writing and reading, resisting both binary colonizer/colonized constructions which ignore the ways in which gender collides with race, national origin, and economic class, and the master narrative tendency of Western feminism to privilege gender as a basis for oppression over other markers of identity. A literary practice which grows out of transnational feminism recognizes one's gendered and raced position along with one's national and class affiliation but at the same time strives to break with antagonistic history by focusing on shared experience and genuine feelings of empathy.
520 $a Chapter Two examines Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and Between the Acts as representations of the fragmentation of female identity within the "Centre," and Woolf's self-reflexive interrogation of the privilege of this position. Chapter Three claims that Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Temple of my Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy construct race and gender as transnational identities and criticize the violence perpetrated upon these aspects of identity and played out on the bodies of women by the colonial process with the collusion of indigenous patriarchy. Chapter Four explores my own approach to South African author Zoe Wicomb's You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town using a transnational feminist reading practice suggested by the strong sense of "otherness" evoked in my first read of the novel.
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