The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing by Seethaler, Ina C.; Pillai, Tripthi;

Short description:

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women’s writing in the global context. 

Long description:

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women’s writing in the global context. Movements and experiences continuously shaping the twenty-first century clarify the urgent need for expanding and re-envisioning academic and social definitions of gender, location, and creative expression. The Companion forges new directions in and conceptualizations of identity, experience, and practice of diverse communities across the world. The volume provides a conjunctive methodology, building on existing scholarly frameworks while encouraging readers to envision new possibilities that enhance future conversations and a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, ranging from established authors’ commentary on key debates to the innovative work of emerging scholars and practitioners. Offering diverse critical and creative access to the nexus of women’s writing, this Companion provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Centering Peripheralized Spaces and Voices

Part I: Politics and Conflict

Reading the Cold War of the 1970s through the Lens of Women’s Press: The Case of Women’s Voice Magazine in Turkey,

Gamze Sarıtunalı Elverişli and Faika Çelik

Dolly Mixtures: A Women’s Writing Group amidst Conflict,

Ashley M. Morin

Vietnamese American Women’s Writing: Claiming the Space in-between,

Luna Chung

Heroine Chicks: Reporting for Duty on the Front Page,

Farrah Hersh

Social Media and Women in Politics,

Devjani Roy

How Can the Personal Stories of Twenty-first-century Refugee and Migrant Girls Be

Heard? The Dilemma of Coming to Voice on Digital Platforms,

Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz

Part II: The Body and Resistance

Individual and Communal Resistance in Contemporary Reproductive Dystopias,

Raluca Andreescu

Writing the Dalit Transwoman: Caste and Queer Intersectionalities in India,

Natasha Negi and Antara Chatterjee

A Conversation about Transfeminism with Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha

Part III: Language and Creative Writing

Reshaping Polynesian Narrative: Chantal Spitz and Her Audacious Counter-Discourse against Colonial Oppression and Factitious Myth,

Sandrine Teixidor

Voices of Mia Farang: Thai Lower-Middle-Class Women’s Storytelling from the Late

1990s-2017,

Pattarat Phantprasit

Claudia Piñeiro’s Un comunista en calzoncillos: A Father’s Non-Hegemonic Masculinity

and Manliness,

Carolina Rocha

Translatorship Empowering Feminism: Xue Qiying’s Translation of and Commentary

on Milian hunshi [Milian’s Marital Story] (1924),

Wenxi Li

Complaining of Work in Blogs: Women Teachers’ Rhetorical Labour of Denouncing Injustice,

Momoyo Mitsuno

From Jane Eyre to Xuela Claudette Richardson: Reading Charlotte Bronte through

Jamaica Kincaid, Manisha Basu

Caught in-between: Chinese Feminism in Contemporary Script Writing for TV Dramas

Kacey Jianwen Liu

Women’s Language at the Intersections of Linguistic Change and Identity,

Becky Childs

Part IV: Nature and Ecofeminism

Magic and Terror in Easterine Kire’s Ecological Fiction: Indigenous Naga Ecofeminism

and Conservation Ethics,

Lucy Keneikhrienuo Yhome and Meghna Christina Mudaliar

Temporality, Cyclones, and Planetary Fiction: The Case of Mutiny by Lindsay Collen

Gargi Binju

Global Women’s Writing and Eco-Cosmopolitanism,

Sukanya Gupta

Part V: Artistic Expressions and Women’s Empowerment

Writing/Righting the Indian City: Graffiti and the Gendered Semiotics of Excess,

Sanchita Khurana

Interpreting Female Bodies, Envisaging Female Identity: Investigating Visual Culture and Orality in Women-Centric Sanjhi in North India,

Muskan Dhandhi and Suman Sigroha

Hilarious, Sad and Didactic: Hanane el-Fadili’s Tribute to Older Unmarried Women in Her Comedy Show The Daughters of Si Taher,

Sarali Gintsburg