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Revising the word and the world : essays in feminist literary criticism / edited by VèVè Clark, Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres, & Madelon Sprengnether.

Contributor(s): Clark, Vèvè A | Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B, 1939- | Sprengnether, Madelon
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993Description: vi, 303 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226400638Subject(s): Feminist literary criticismDDC classification: 809/.89287 LOC classification: PN98.W64 | R48 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An interview with Audre Lorde / Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich -- An interview with Simone de Beauvoir/ Simone de Beauvoir and Alice Jardine -- An interview with Carmen Naranjo : women and Latin American literature / Carmen Naranjo and Lourdes Arizpe -- Postmodernism and gender relations in feminist theory / by Jane Flax -- African-American women's history and the metalanguage of race / by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Critical clitoridectomy : female sexual imagery and feminist psychological theory / by Paula Bennett -- No lost paradise : social gender and symbolic gender in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston / by Leslie W. Rabine -- The sultan and the slave : feminist orientalism and the structure of Jane Eyre / by Jocye Zonana -- Dancing out the difference : cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's "Radha" of 1906 / by Jane Desmond -- Poetry as a strategy of power : the case of Riffian Berber women / by Terri Brint Joseph -- Womanism : the dynamics of the contemporary black female novel in English / by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi -- Narrative of community : the identification of a genre / by Sandra A. Zagarell.

Collection of articles which appeared originally in Signs, journal of women in culture and society between 1979 and 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An interview with Audre Lorde / Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich -- An interview with Simone de Beauvoir/ Simone de Beauvoir and Alice Jardine -- An interview with Carmen Naranjo : women and Latin American literature / Carmen Naranjo and Lourdes Arizpe -- Postmodernism and gender relations in feminist theory / by Jane Flax -- African-American women's history and the metalanguage of race / by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Critical clitoridectomy : female sexual imagery and feminist psychological theory / by Paula Bennett -- No lost paradise : social gender and symbolic gender in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston / by Leslie W. Rabine -- The sultan and the slave : feminist orientalism and the structure of Jane Eyre / by Jocye Zonana -- Dancing out the difference : cultural imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's "Radha" of 1906 / by Jane Desmond -- Poetry as a strategy of power : the case of Riffian Berber women / by Terri Brint Joseph -- Womanism : the dynamics of the contemporary black female novel in English / by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi -- Narrative of community : the identification of a genre / by Sandra A. Zagarell.

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