women's writing in English in a European context
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Séllei, Nóra > (ed.)
- Creator
- Waudby, june > (ed.)
- Creator
- Knapp, Gudrun-Axeli
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- Federici, Eleonora
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwelijkheid, reizen, kolonialisme, etniciteit, gender, identiteit, religie, literatuur, historisch, bundel
- Description
- This collection of essays explores the cultural meanings of women leaving home.The volume aims to put the narrative element of home-leaving into a European context by investigating travel in various directions: from England to somewhere abroad, from the (former) colonies to the (former) imperial centre or simply within a psychic space. The female figures discussed in the volume leave home for various reasons - to go into exile, to challenge orthodox conceptions of femininity, to travel for pleasure or out of curiosit. The essays in this collection focus on how the cross-cultural encounters implicated in discourses of race, gender, nation and religion affect female identity. The 'protagonists' of these narratives range from mythical heroines to early modern Protestant refugees to fictitious and historical figures from the past 200 years. like Saartjie Baartman.The discussion throughout is informed by contemporary theories of gender, literary and cultural studies.