| Description |
1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Women in Transition -- Transition in Women -- Content -- Notes -- Reference List -- Part I Crossing Boundaries -- 1 The Making of To See a Woman -- Today -- Notes -- Reference List -- 2 Exposing the Monstrous Double: The Body in Crisis in Meritxell Bosch's Graphic Autobiography Diana Aramburu -- The Grandmother and Mother Framework: Problematising the Body -- Gender Violence and the Body in Crisis -- The Monstrous Double: Bulimia -- Recuperation and Rebirth: The Emergence of the Erotic Body -- Notes -- Reference List -- 3 Filling in the Gaps between Childhood and Menopause in Alison Bechdel's Are you My Mother? A Comic Drama -- Introduction -- Researching Psychoanalysis -- Writing as Therapy/Autobiographical Writing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 4 Dichotomies of the Feminine: Mediating Women and the Boundaries of the Primordial in Ancient Egyptian Textual Culture -- Introduction -- The Tale of the Two Brothers: An Overview -- Women and the Sea -- Connected to the Sea, Entangled with the Primordial -- The Dichotomy of the Feminine -- Seductresses and Rejuvenators: Uses of the Dichotomy in The Tale of the Two Brothers and Beyond -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 5 Cascading Transitions: Becoming a Writer and Engaging with Neurodiversity in Response to Motherhood -- Reference List -- 6 The Ambiguity of Pain: Self, Fragments and Female Connection in Chen Ran's A Private Life -- Pain, Gendered Identity and A Private Life -- Puberty Pain and the Pathological Female Body -- Sex, Pain and Female Intimacy -- Wounds, Fragments and Mental Illness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- Part II Crossing Borders -- 7 Vanishing Lines -- Disappearing -- Crossing borders |
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Motherhood -- Horizons -- Identity -- Absences -- Notes -- Reference List -- 8 Border Crossing Bibliophiles: Just in Bookcase by Istanbul Queer Art Collective -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- Notes -- Reference List -- 9 Transitional Figures: Partition, Victimhood and Agency in Two Fictions by Jyotirmoyee Devi -- Introduction -- Partition, Violence and Literature -- Transition and Precariousness in 'The Crossing' -- From Victimhood to Agency in The River Churning5 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 10 Transnational Melancholia: Depression and Exile in Italian Women's Poetry from the Early-Modern to the Contemporary -- 'All Psychiatry is Transcultural': Tripling the Method -- The Foreign as a Symptom: A Transnational Diagnosis of Depression -- Depression's Poetic Discourse: Italian Women's Lyric Across Space and Time -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference List -- 11 Narrative Horsepower in Julia Kristeva's Fiction: Reading Movement in Meurtre à Byzance (2004) and Thérèse mon amour (2008) -- Introduction -- Crusading in a Red Fiat Panda -- Galloping Through Space and Text -- Notes -- Reference List -- 12 'Putting the Fish in the Stream'1: The Intersection of Literature and Biography in Guidebooks to (Clarice Lispector's) Rio a -- Mapping the Books 1: Maria Ondina, from Braga -- Mapping the Books 2: Clarice, Citizen of Leme -- Putting the Fish in the Stream -- Notes -- Reference list -- 13 Reading Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels with the Grain: The View of a Female Academic from Southern Italy -- Introduction: Are You Elena Greco? -- Reading as a Woman (Academic) from Southern Italy -- Reading as Interpretation: Digging Deep? -- Surface Reading: Reading with the Grain -- Writing and Reading for Change -- Conclusion: Change Beyond the Reading -- Notes -- Reference List |
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14 Stepping out into Cyberspace: How Women Negotiate Digital Spaces in Politics, Economics and Culture -- Female Spaces Online: Places of Postfeminist Propaganda or the Dawning of a Fourth Wave in Feminism? -- Reclaiming Their Half of the Bookshelf: New Spaces of Cultural Production in Women's Book Blogs -- Can you be a Mummy Blogger and Still be a Feminist?: New Spaces in Politics -- The Twitch Generation or How to Make Money Online: New Spaces in Economics -- Digital Media: A Safe Space for Women? -- Notes -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Women in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Claire
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| ISBN |
9781000383324 |
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1000383326 |
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