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Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
AvSusan Watkins
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
1 745 kr
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This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrativeand history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.
Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing
Making Love, Making Worlds
AvJennifer Leetsch
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 543 kr
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This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.
Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing
Making Love, Making Worlds
AvJennifer Leetsch
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
1 543 kr
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This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
AvLinda Garber
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 307 kr
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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital, speculative past in the face of a sketchy, problematic archive. Among the memorable characters in some 200 novels are pirates, cowgirls, and famous artists, ghosts and time travellers, immigrants and lovers. The best lesbian historical novels are conscientious and buoyant as they engage critical historiographical questions, but Novel Approaches also discusses the class and race biases that weigh on the genre. Some lesbian historical novels are based on archival evidence, others on conjecture or fantasy, but all convey the true fact that identity is elusive without a past, without which its future is nearly impossible.
Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing
AvMarja Sorvari
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
707 kr
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The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers’ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia.
Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing
AvMarja Sorvari
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
707 kr
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The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers’ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia.
A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women
Fictions, Histories, Myths
AvLeanne Bibby
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 189 kr
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This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres.
A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women
Fictions, Histories, Myths
AvLeanne Bibby
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
1 189 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres.
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
AvLinda Garber
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
315 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Novel Approaches to Lesbian History tells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital, speculative past in the face of a sketchy, problematic archive. Among the memorable characters in some 200 novels are pirates, cowgirls, and famous artists, ghosts and time travellers, immigrants and lovers. The best lesbian historical novels are conscientious and buoyant as they engage critical historiographical questions, but Novel Approaches also discusses the class and race biases that weigh on the genre. Some lesbian historical novels are based on archival evidence, others on conjecture or fantasy, but all convey the true fact that identity is elusive without a past, without which its future is nearly impossible.
Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing
AvGina Wisker,Leanne Bibbym. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 780 kr
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This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.
Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing
AvGina Wisker,Leanne Bibbym. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
1 780 kr
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This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.
Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe
AvCatherine Barbour,Karunika Kardak
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 898 kr
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This book explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings. The chapters explore how the genre of women’s historical fiction unearths women’s historical experiences and adds to historical narratives in order to counter and challenge colonial, heteropatriarchal ‘official’ histories. The collection addresses how women writers utilise the genre to reclaim personal and collective memory as well as write back into history marginalised, oppressed and overlooked subjectivities, especially those of racialised, migrant, disabled, LGBTQIA+ and other minoritised communities.Chapter 1 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com, thanks to the generous support of Trinity College Dublin Trust.
Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe
AvCatherine Barbour,Karunika Kardak
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
1 898 kr
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This book explores contemporary women’s historical fiction from global perspectives and expands substantially on existing studies by drawing on intersectional, transnational and decolonial approaches to examine texts originating in different languages and engaging with diverse time periods, contexts and cultural settings. The chapters explore how the genre of women’s historical fiction unearths women’s historical experiences and adds to historical narratives in order to counter and challenge colonial, heteropatriarchal ‘official’ histories. The collection addresses how women writers utilise the genre to reclaim personal and collective memory as well as write back into history marginalised, oppressed and overlooked subjectivities, especially those of racialised, migrant, disabled, LGBTQIA+ and other minoritised communities.Chapter 1 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com, thanks to the generous support of Trinity College Dublin Trust.
Women Writing Intimacy and Resistance
Not So Private Conversations
AvValérie Baisnée-Keay,Corinne Bigotm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 898 kr
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This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today. Guided by the feminist slogan “the personal is political,” it bridges feminist, decolonial, ethnic, and queer studies, revealing how gender-based domination intersects with other forms of oppression. The authors highlight how these writers, across various forms of expression, imagine new modes of resistance and carve out space for social change.
Women Writing Intimacy and Resistance
Not So Private Conversations
AvValérie Baisnée-Keay,Corinne Bigotm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
1 898 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This collection explores how women writers in the English-speaking world transform personal intimacy into political engagement, challenging cultural oppression across genres—life writing, novels, poetry, and theatre—from the 19th century to today. Guided by the feminist slogan “the personal is political,” it bridges feminist, decolonial, ethnic, and queer studies, revealing how gender-based domination intersects with other forms of oppression. The authors highlight how these writers, across various forms of expression, imagine new modes of resistance and carve out space for social change.
Women's Friendships in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction
Bonding across Difference
AvTeresa Martínez-Quiles
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 971 kr
Kommande
This book examines how women writers of colour, specifically those situated within Anglophone diasporic contexts, have played a significant role in the rewriting of women's friendships in literature, mainly by dismantling romanticised views of women as ‘kindred spirits’ or ‘sisters’ and of women's sociability as a primarily private affair. Through an interdisciplinary framework based on philosophical, sociological, and literary criticism, the book approaches the concept of women’s friendship as a broad and flexible relational framework that encompasses diverse forms of female bonding. These relations are simultaneously personal, rooted in mutual affection and the situated knowledge of the other, and political, insofar as they acknowledge and interrogate the systems of power that naturalise antagonism, competition, and hierarchy between women. Foregrounding the intersecting axes of race, class, sexuality, culture, and nationality, among others, the book explores the conditions under which women form friendships in contemporary Anglophone contexts shaped by patriarchal, imperial, and neoliberal power structures, and the forms of solidarity and resistance that these connections nonetheless enable.
Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America
1980-2020
AvLaura Gallon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 307 kr
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This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jamaica Kincaid, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Shani Mootoo, amongst many others. It takes the reader on a rich, revealing journey through the contemporary short story scene, made up of stories by both established authors and lesser-known names. The stories considered display the diverse experiences, literary styles and concerns of migrant short story writers, and their shared cross-cultural concerns with home, belonging and domesticity. Across chapters scrutinising the roles and representations of language, food and dress in the stories, the book introduces a new way of theorising migrant short fiction through the concept of habitability. It explores the authors’ radical re-appropriation of domestic tropes and argues that the short story form is particularly well-suited to the hybridity and fragmentation of the migrant experience.By examining short stories as cultural artifacts, taking publishing contexts into consideration, and incorporating an exclusive bibliographical guide to short story collections published since 1980, this study analyses form alongside theme to offer new insights into migrant women’s contributions to the contemporary short story.

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Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing – serie

Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing

Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing

Novel Approaches to Lesbian History

Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing

Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing

A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women

A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women

Novel Approaches to Lesbian History

Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe

Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe

Women Writing Intimacy and Resistance

Women Writing Intimacy and Resistance

Women's Friendships in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction

Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America

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