Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers

by Amireh,Amal

• ISBN13: 9780815336068
• ISBN10: 0815336063
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-07-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 theprojects of feminism and multiculturalism in a global age.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(26)
Amal Amireh
Lisa Suhair Majaj
Section I: Women's Texts, Global Scripts	27	(86)
The Triumphant Discourse of Global Feminism: Should Other Women Be Known?	29	(10)
Marnia Lazreg
An Affair to Remember: Scripted Performances in the ``Nasreen Affair''	39	(45)
Bishnupriya Ghosh
Palestinian Women and the Politics of Reception	84	(29)
Therese Saliba
Jeanne Kattan
Section II: The Writer as Text	113	(94)
Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reception of Latin American Testimonios	115	(33)
Eva Paulino Bueno
Packaging ``Huda'': Sha'rawi's Memoirs in the United States Reception Environment	148	(25)
Mohja Kahf
Identity and Community in Autobiographies of Algerian Women in France	173	(34)
Patricia Geesey
Section III: Resistant Readings	207	(94)
``Sharp contrasts of all colours'': The Legacy of Toru Dutt	209	(20)
Alpana Sharma Knippling
Grim Fairy Tales: Taking a Risk, Reading Imaginary Maps	229	(23)
Jennifer Wenzel
Trajectories of Change: The Politics of Reading Postcolonial Women's Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom	252	(32)
Sally McWilliams
Coming to America: Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss	284	(17)
Ella Shohat
Index	301