Feminist literary and cultural criticism : an analytical approach to space / Java Singh.
Singh, Java.
2022
PN98.W64
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Title Feminist literary and cultural criticism : an analytical approach to space / Java Singh.
Author Singh, Java.
ISBN 9789811914263 (electronic bk.)
9811914265 (electronic bk.)
9811914257
9789811914256
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1426-3
Publication Details Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (302 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-19-1426-3 doi
Call Number PN98.W64
Dewey Decimal Classification 801/.95082
Summary Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores inter-disciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Psychology, and feminist literary criticism to develop a theoretical framework for spatial criticism. Using the spatial gynocritics framework developed in the book, it analyzes selected texts from five different genresshort-story, novel, film, cartoons, and OTT series, created by women. The creators discussed in the book constitute a transnational collectivity of women that shares common concerns about gender, environment, technology, and social hierarchies. They comprise a geographically and linguistically diverse group from India, Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, and the USA. The book offers immense potential for a comparative study on numerous aspects, among which the present work concentrates on the treatment of Space, demonstrating that spatial logic and grammar are essential elements of the feminist praxis. The book reveals the unexamined potential in the women creators praxis of destabilizing, decentring, and destroying the ascribed centres around which social arrangements are structured. Moreover, the book offers valuable analytic tools that add to scholarship in literary theory, comparative cultural studies, comparative literature, gender studies, feminist criticism, and interdisciplinary humanities. It is an indispensable aid to students and faculty in these areas of study, enabling them to critique texts from a fresh perspective.
Note 9 Sumukhi Suresh's Satirical Comedy
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Intro
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Part I Interdisciplinary Vecotrs
1 The Anthropological Vector
1.1 Social Drama
1.2 Liminality
1.3 Rites and Ritual
1.4 Communitas and Anti-structure
1.5 Pilgrimage
1.6 Conclusion
References
2 The Geographic Vector
2.1 The Poetics of Spatial Patriarchy
2.2 Space and Place: Is There a Material Difference?
2.3 A Topographical View of Literary Spatiality
2.4 Viewing Interstices by Stretching Space in Teresa de la Parra's Ifigenia

2.5 A View from the Interstices in Cristina Peri Rossi's "The Annunciation"
2.6 Conclusion
References
3 The Psychological Vector
3.1 Metonymic Disordered Space
3.2 The Neurotic Anxiety of Patriarchy
3.3 Real-Life Instances of Pathologically Masochistic Patriarchy
3.4 A Binocular View of Masochistic Space
3.5 Matrilineal Horror
3.6 Conclusion
References
4 The Literary Vector
4.1 An-Other Literary Cartography
4.2 Jean Franco: Antigonal Archetypes
4.3 Josefina Ludmer: De-Differentiated Oscillations
4.4 Sara Castro-Klarén: Localized Speaking Spaces

4.5 Nattie Golubov: La Lectora Nómada (The Female Nomadic Reader)
4.6 Rachel Falconer and Joy Ladin: Chronotopic Extensions
4.7 Conclusion
References
5 The Resultant Vector: A Model for Spatial Gynocritics
5.1 The Machine Gun of Silence and Appropriating Gratitude
5.2 Surface Tension and Marginal Autonomy
5.3 Negative, Subjunctive Imperatives
5.4 Conclusion
References
Part II Interstitial Spatial Views
6 Cristina Peri Rossi's Postmodernist Short Story
6.1 Political, Social, and Sexual Exile
6.2 Delimiting Women's Postmodernist Writing

6.3 Stories of the Psychiatrist's Clinic, the Road, and the Racetrack
6.3.1 The Psychiatrist's Clinic Stories
6.3.2 The Road Stories
6.3.3 The Racetrack Stories
6.4 A View Through the Spatial Gynocritics Model
6.4.1 De-settling Clinics
6.4.2 De-bordering Roads
6.4.3 De-canonizing the Racetrack
6.5 Conclusion
References
7 Manjula Padmanabhan's Science Fiction Novel
7.1 Women Science Fiction Writers in India
7.2 Myth and Science Fiction
7.3 Manjula Padmanabhan's Science Fiction
7.4 Precaricide, Reproduction, and Myth in Manjula Padmanabhan's Novels

7.5 A View Through the Spatial Gynocritics Model
7.5.1 De-canonizing Junctions
7.5.2 De-bordering the Arena, Battlefield, and Playfield
7.5.3 De-settling Vehicular Transport
7.6 Conclusion
References
8 Lucrecia Martel's Transnational Cinema
8.1 Lucrecia Martel's Salta Trilogy: A Transnational Bildüngsroman
8.2 A View Through the Spatial Gynocritics Model
8.2.1 De-settling Class and Family by the Pool
8.2.2 De-canonizing the Home-Nation
8.2.3 De-bordering the City and the Slum Through Liquid Spaces
8.3 Conclusion
References

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