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What might planetary modernisms mean if we incorporate non-human along with human dimensions of modernity? The essay challenges the prevailing anthropocentrism of modernist studies by focusing on the radical scaling of spacetime in... more
What might planetary modernisms mean if we incorporate non-human along with human dimensions of modernity? The essay challenges the prevailing anthropocentrism of modernist studies by focusing on the radical scaling of spacetime in selected women’s writing and art as they engage with the new cosmology, quantum physics, materialism, ethics of their times. Spotlighting Woolf, H.D., and Hilma af Klint) (early 20th century) Alicja Kwade and Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner (21st century), the essay draws on the new time and archipelagic studies to examine the agencies of the non-human and human amidst war, colonialism, capitalism, militarism, and environmental destruction. Jetnil-Kijinner’s Marshallese poems bring into sharp focus the ecologically-inflected planetarity and politics of the other artists and writers.
Keywords: planetary modernism, feminism, new materialism, cosmology, archipelagic studies
Keywords: planetary modernism, feminism, new materialism, cosmology, archipelagic studies
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Conference paper for a panel on The New Modernist Studies. It explores how colliding temporalities come into view when we attempt to see the planet through non-human lens. Examples discussed include Virginia Woolf's "Flying over London,"... more
Conference paper for a panel on The New Modernist Studies. It explores how colliding temporalities come into view when we attempt to see the planet through non-human lens. Examples discussed include Virginia Woolf's "Flying over London," a section of HD's Trilogy, the abstract paintings of Hilma af Klint (1906-1944) and Alicja Kwades contemporary exhibit on the Roof Garden of the New York Met.
Of course we have come a long way (I won't say "baby") since the days when the editor of Harvard University Press solicited a proposal in 1978 for my book-in-progress Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of HD (1981), but then wrote me: "we are... more
Of course we have come a long way (I won't say "baby") since the days when the editor of Harvard University Press solicited a proposal in 1978 for my book-in-progress Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of HD (1981), but then wrote me: "we are not interested in publishing a book on H.D.'s religious poetry." Some 8 years before, Norman Holmes Pearson turned me loose in his Sterling Hall study, where he kept one half of H.D';s library. I was astounded to discover a slew of books, many of them heavily annotated, on mysticism, occultism, spiritualism, astrology, tarot, Kabbalah, and various kinds of hermetic and heterodox religious traditions and practices. Wow. The more I read, the more I saw that what underlay these readings was a deep attraction to the spiritual that took forms of resistance to mainstream religion and orthodoxy. (She would later mock T. S. Eliot's "wobbling massward," insisting to Bryher that her invocations of the Lady in Trilogy were not evidence of her turning to Catholicism). By 2018, when I was writing an essay on religion and modernism for Douglas Mao's forthcoming The New Modernist Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2020), I had the pleasure of seeing many books on early twentieth-century Euro-American writers defying Nietzsche's announcement that "God is dead"' and instead writing extensively about religion, especially esoteric religion, in many modernist writers (prominently Elizabeth Anderson's H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination: Mysticism and Writing). The intersection of feminism and religion figures prominently in studies of modernist women writers. What I found missing, however, was religion outside the Euro-American archives of modernism as well as interdisciplinary engagement with debates in religious studies more generally. As modernist studies has increasingly engaged colonialism and transnational 1
Syllabus for a graduate seminar on debates in transnational/global/planetary modernisms and selected literary texts.
The essay explores the overlapping discourses in the fields of the " new " world literature and the " new " migration studies, with a focus on their related discourses of circulation and cosmopolitanism. It examines the transnational... more
The essay explores the overlapping discourses in the fields of the " new " world literature and the " new " migration studies, with a focus on their related discourses of circulation and cosmopolitanism. It examines the transnational circulation of writers in addition to texts in twenty-first century world literature with specific discussions of the cosmopolitan treatment of religion in the work of selected diasporic Muslim women writers, featuring Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul and Mohja Kahf's E-Mails from Scheherazad and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. The essay considers the importance for diasporic Muslim women writers of Scheherazade as a learned woman and clever storyteller who saves the realm through words, not violence. Confronting Islamophobia and Orientalist fantasies of Muslim women, these authors locate traditions of cosmopoli-tanism and religious tolerance within their own heritage, not as an exclusive property of the West. Keywords circulation – cosmopolitanism – Islamophobia – religion – Mohja Kahf – Elif Shafak – World Literature … Countless people are on the move and even those who have never left their homeland are moved by this restless epoch. Nikos Papastergiadis, The Turbulence of Migration (2)
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This edited volume includes nine essays that explore ways in which poets, novelists, multi-media artists, fabric artists, street artists, and a web designer engage with the global crises and issues of the present by "recycling" or... more
This edited volume includes nine essays that explore ways in which poets, novelists, multi-media artists, fabric artists, street artists, and a web designer engage with the global crises and issues of the present by "recycling" or "remixing" the past as a way to hope for a future. The Introduction and Table of Contents provides an overview of the volume and connects the work of these writers and artists to concepts of the "contemporary" in the new time studies.
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The article, appearing in a special issue devoted to Kwame Anthony Appiah of New Literary History, argues that the "new" cosmopolitanism finds expression in the diasporic writings of Muslim women writers, for whom religion and... more
The article, appearing in a special issue devoted to Kwame Anthony Appiah of New Literary History, argues that the "new" cosmopolitanism finds expression in the diasporic writings of Muslim women writers, for whom religion and cosmopolitanism can be conjoined in opposition to dogmatic forms of both religion and secularism. Includes specific discussions of Appiah's Cosmopolitanism, Randa Jarrar and Mohja Kahf.
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Description The " new modernist studies " has greatly expanded the scope of modernist studies in recent years. The field studies began with a focus on the avant-garde and experimental literature, arts, and philosophies of the late 19... more
Description The " new modernist studies " has greatly expanded the scope of modernist studies in recent years. The field studies began with a focus on the avant-garde and experimental literature, arts, and philosophies of the late 19 th-/early 20 th century Europe and U.S., but in the 21 st century, modernist studies serves as a vibrant umbrella for much wider concepts of both modernity and modernism. This seminar will explore various theoretical and methodological issues involved in the scalar expansions of space and time in what is variously called " planetary, " " global, " or " transnational " modernist studies. The course is organized around some key debates in this expansive and still expanding field, with reference to selected modernist literary texts from the long twentieth century. Questions to be explored include: What do these expansions mean for modernist studies today? What are the arguments against these expansions? What approaches have been developed to handle these expansions? How is the relationship between 'modernity' and 'modernism' theorized? What is the significance of concepts of multiple, recurrent, polycentric, alternative, marginal, peripheral, other, divergent, discordant, and vernacular modernities and modernisms? How do these new approaches to modernist studies relate to such other fields as postcolonial studies, environmental studies, affect theory, feminist and gender studies, race and indigeneity studies, migration studies, digital studies, etc.? What " texts " (in any media) are part of the new archives of a planetary modernist studies? Debates in planetary modernist studies to be addressed include: • The Transnational Turn in Modernist Studies • Scale: Space and Time in Modernist Studies • Pattern: Center/Periphery vs. Networks • Cosmopolitanisms: " Old " and " New " • Empire: Modernism and Postcolonial Studies • Planet: Continents—Islands—Archipelagoes-Oceans in Modernist Studies Literary texts from the 'long twentieth century will provide an arena to test the usefulness of these debates in planetary modernist studies. Students interested in medieval modernities, early modern modernities, middle modernities, and 21 st-century modernities are equally welcome in
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Reflections on Rita Felski's The Limits of Critique. The essay argues that Felski's important book usefully explores the limits of pure critique as a methodology for reading literature; argues that critique (needed now more than ever in... more
Reflections on Rita Felski's The Limits of Critique. The essay argues that Felski's important book usefully explores the limits of pure critique as a methodology for reading literature; argues that critique (needed now more than ever in current political climate) needs to be combined with the excitement and pleasures of discovery in the humanities.
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Seminar Syllabus, July 17-26, for Harvard University's annual Institute for World Literature, held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Essay in Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser, Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Ohio State UP, 2015), 101-22. Argues for importance of integrating religion into feminist theory of intersectionality, using three... more
Essay in Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser, Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Ohio State UP, 2015), 101-22. Argues for importance of integrating religion into feminist theory of intersectionality, using three novels of development by Muslim women writers.
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Kyenote paper at Conference on H.D. and Feminist Poetics, Lehigh University, September 17-19, 2015. The paper presents vignettes of my experience as a graduate student and young faculty member working on H.D.; it juxtaposes these... more
Kyenote paper at Conference on H.D. and Feminist Poetics, Lehigh University, September 17-19, 2015. The paper presents vignettes of my experience as a graduate student and young faculty member working on H.D.; it juxtaposes these experiences of emergence to two scenes of "unveiling": Mary's scarf slipping off her head with Kaspar in The Flowering of the Rod in the context of HD's travels to Turkey and Egypt, 1922-23 and Egyptian feminist leader Huda Shaawari's sensational removal of her veil at the Cairo train station in 1923.
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"Planetary Modernisms: Why the Contemporary Needs the Longue Duree" is a keynote address for a conference on Oceanic Modernism, University of South Pacific, Fiji, February 3-5, 2016. Argues that transnationalizing modernist studies... more
"Planetary Modernisms: Why the Contemporary Needs the Longue Duree" is a keynote address for a conference on Oceanic Modernism, University of South Pacific, Fiji, February 3-5, 2016. Argues that transnationalizing modernist studies requires a major paradigm shift on the concept of "modernity" in order to avoid isolating island studies on the periphery. The paper review some key arguments of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time (Columbia UP, 2015) in relation to new theories of archipelagic epistemology and current issues in island/archipelagic studies.
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The main task of the present article is to characterize the changing perspectives in the description and definition of modernism and modernity in a reciprocal relationship of these two categories. The creation of definitions is described... more
The main task of the present article is to characterize the changing perspectives in the description and definition of modernism and modernity in a reciprocal relationship of these two categories. The creation of definitions is described here as a processes of fictionalization with a generational viewpoint of scholars. Moreover, the article indicates the difference between a nominal and a relational mode of defining and the question of institutionalization of knowledge within the framework of definition projects. Such research perspectives lead to the conclusion about dialogical and at the same time contradictory character of historical formations of phenomena to which the studied terms allude.
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Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally... more
Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? "Comparison" expands upon a special issue of the journal "New Literary History", which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies complement the original ten pieces. The work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, R. Radhakrishnan, Bruce Robbins, Ania Loomba, Haun Saussy, Linda Gordon, Walter D. Mignolo, Shu-mei Shih, and Pheng Cheah are included with contributions by anthropologists Caroline B. Brettell and Richard Handler. Historical periods discussed range from the early modern to the contemporary and geographical regions that encompass the globe. Ultimately, "Comparison" argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research.
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What might planetary modernisms mean if we incorporate non-human along with human dimensions of modernity? The essay challenges the prevailing anthropocentrism of modernist studies by focusing on the radical scaling of spacetime in... more
What might planetary modernisms mean if we incorporate
non-human along with human dimensions of modernity? The essay
challenges the prevailing anthropocentrism of modernist studies by
focusing on the radical scaling of spacetime in selected women’s
writing and art as they engage with the new cosmology, quantum
physics, materialism, ethics of their times. Spotlighting Woolf, H.D.,
and Hilma af Klint (early twentieth century), and Alicja Kwade and
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner (twenty-first century), the essay draws on
the new time and archipelagic studies to examine the agencies
of the non-human and human amidst war, colonialism, capitalism,
militarism, and environmental destruction. Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s
Marshallese poems bring into sharp focus the ecologically inflected
planetarity and politics of the other artists and writers.
KEYWORDS
Planetary modernism;
feminism; new materialism;
cosmology; archipelagic studies
non-human along with human dimensions of modernity? The essay
challenges the prevailing anthropocentrism of modernist studies by
focusing on the radical scaling of spacetime in selected women’s
writing and art as they engage with the new cosmology, quantum
physics, materialism, ethics of their times. Spotlighting Woolf, H.D.,
and Hilma af Klint (early twentieth century), and Alicja Kwade and
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner (twenty-first century), the essay draws on
the new time and archipelagic studies to examine the agencies
of the non-human and human amidst war, colonialism, capitalism,
militarism, and environmental destruction. Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s
Marshallese poems bring into sharp focus the ecologically inflected
planetarity and politics of the other artists and writers.
KEYWORDS
Planetary modernism;
feminism; new materialism;
cosmology; archipelagic studies
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This article gives a critical overview over risks inherent in comparison, –risks of inequality between the two compared phenomena, the risk of using a normative standard, derived from one work or context for the evaluation of another work... more
This article gives a critical overview over risks inherent in comparison, –risks of inequality between the two compared phenomena, the risk of using a normative standard, derived from one work or context for the evaluation of another work or another context, the risk of reducing the uniqueness of a work to generic or topical dimensions etc. However, the article moves on to make a strong argument for the necessity of comparison. It suggests the development of a more dynamic, dialectic and relational form of comparison. The article argues that any comparison is full of contradictory movements and therefore argues that a modern comparative method should focus on incommensurable juxtapositions, on contrapuntal opposition and reciprocity.
Can literary history be done without the conventional reliance on linear periodization? What might a literary history of modernism look like without the usual periodization of roughly 1890–1940? This essay reviews the arguments for and... more
Can literary history be done without the conventional reliance on linear periodization? What might a literary history of modernism look like without the usual periodization of roughly 1890–1940? This essay reviews the arguments for and against periodization and then argues that the new time studies—based in nonlinear concepts of time for the study of the contemporary—offers alternatives to the Eurocentric periodization of modernism. These new temporalities were anticipated by early twentieth-century Euro-American modernism, presented in the essay with an account of the dramatic debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson in 1922 and a discussion of Virginia Woolf’s experiments with the relationality of space and time in her fiction. Multidimensional, layered, and disjunctive concepts of time are better suited for the study of planetary modernisms that incorporate the colonial and postcolonial modernities. Kabe Wilson’s multimedia installation based on a remix of A Room of One’s...
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... I am a Turkmanian woman from a city called Erbil in the north of Iraq. Erbil is an ancient city, it is famous of having a great castle. We have the University of Salahaddin and for six years we haven't got instructors and profes... more
... I am a Turkmanian woman from a city called Erbil in the north of Iraq. Erbil is an ancient city, it is famous of having a great castle. We have the University of Salahaddin and for six years we haven't got instructors and profes sors for Ph.D. stage. I have three little daugh ters. ... ...
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... Press, 1937), pp. 497 ff. Page 9. Who Buried HD? 809 28 ... cruel, cruel the thought of Love." Yet, as with her lovers, she finally puts the Child's needs before her own; Helen's cry in the middle of the poem to... more
... Press, 1937), pp. 497 ff. Page 9. Who Buried HD? 809 28 ... cruel, cruel the thought of Love." Yet, as with her lovers, she finally puts the Child's needs before her own; Helen's cry in the middle of the poem to "take the Child awav,/cruel, cruel, is Hope," becomes by the end "come ...
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... illustrate these four strategies with brief discussions of four exemplary texts: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, written in the 192Q's; Alicia Ostriker's The Mother/Child Papers, which came out in... more
... illustrate these four strategies with brief discussions of four exemplary texts: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, written in the 192Q's; Alicia Ostriker's The Mother/Child Papers, which came out in 1980; Judy Grahn's The ... Neither Exodus nor Ada can nourish their girl-egg. ...
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... This is also what Indepal Grewal and Caren Kaplan call for in their seminal collection, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (1994), where they theorise the necessity of moving beyond the binaries... more
... This is also what Indepal Grewal and Caren Kaplan call for in their seminal collection, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (1994), where they theorise the necessity of moving beyond the binaries of centre/periphery, local/global and First ...
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... pres-ence in contemporary Arabic literature, as Season of Migration to the North: A Casebook, edited in Beirut by Mona Takieddine Amyuni ... his young lover's parents had taken the boy away from him.(Roy [1997], 51) Here,... more
... pres-ence in contemporary Arabic literature, as Season of Migration to the North: A Casebook, edited in Beirut by Mona Takieddine Amyuni ... his young lover's parents had taken the boy away from him.(Roy [1997], 51) Here, in the postcolonial period, AmmuChacko's beautiful ...
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:At the 2008 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers conference (BWWC), Ann Cvetkovich, Susan Fraiman, and Susan Stanford Friedman presented the opening-night plenary panel devoted to mapping feminist... more
:At the 2008 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers conference (BWWC), Ann Cvetkovich, Susan Fraiman, and Susan Stanford Friedman presented the opening-night plenary panel devoted to mapping feminist scholarship's current priorities and concerns. Conference participants reported being both intrigued and perplexed by the speakers' seemingly bleak view of "women writers" as a useful scholarly category. This essay, conducted by the
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Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my trewand pen, beating myself for spite, "Fool," said my muse to me, "look in they heart and write." Philip Sidney (1591) The poet is in labor. She... more
Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my trewand pen, beating myself for spite, "Fool," said my muse to me, "look in they heart and write." Philip Sidney (1591) The poet is in labor. She has been told that it will not hurt but it has hurt so much that pain and ...
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In a rare and uncharacteristic burst of anger, the poet HD wrote to Bryher, the woman with whom she lived on and off from 1919 to 1950, that she would not have her analysis with Sigmund Freud "spoiled" by the publication of her... more
In a rare and uncharacteristic burst of anger, the poet HD wrote to Bryher, the woman with whom she lived on and off from 1919 to 1950, that she would not have her analysis with Sigmund Freud "spoiled" by the publication of her poem "The Master" (written 1934-35) in her friend ...
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... I sat through endless meetings that led nowhere because of factionalization and leftist purism. ... rally speeches; teaching involves not exhorting, but challenging diverse people to question and think. ... For myself and many... more
... I sat through endless meetings that led nowhere because of factionalization and leftist purism. ... rally speeches; teaching involves not exhorting, but challenging diverse people to question and think. ... For myself and many feminists like me in the academy, the constant contradiction ...
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Homer and Sappho stand at the symbolic fountainheads of epic and lyric poetry as they have been defined in western literary criticism. Representing opposite ends of the poetic spectrum, they have embodied a generic polarity epitomized by... more
Homer and Sappho stand at the symbolic fountainheads of epic and lyric poetry as they have been defined in western literary criticism. Representing opposite ends of the poetic spectrum, they have embodied a generic polarity epitomized by the description of Felix ...
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In The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich initiated her quest for the common language of women by quoting these stern lines from HD's Trilogy, an epic that presents the poet's search amid the firebombs of World... more
In The Dream of a Common Language, Adrienne Rich initiated her quest for the common language of women by quoting these stern lines from HD's Trilogy, an epic that presents the poet's search amid the firebombs of World War II for a regenerative love symbolized by the Goddess.' ...
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ONE OF MY LOVING QUIBBLES WITH CAROLYN, WITH WHOM I walked in the park every week for something like twenty-six years, concerned her almost constant reference, from what seemed to me an early date, to her "old... more
ONE OF MY LOVING QUIBBLES WITH CAROLYN, WITH WHOM I walked in the park every week for something like twenty-six years, concerned her almost constant reference, from what seemed to me an early date, to her "old age." I know, of course, how she was ready for it, and ...
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... I am a Turkmanian woman from a city called Erbil in the north of Iraq. Erbil is an ancient city, it is famous of having a great castle. We have the University of Salahaddin and for six years we haven't got instructors and profes... more
... I am a Turkmanian woman from a city called Erbil in the north of Iraq. Erbil is an ancient city, it is famous of having a great castle. We have the University of Salahaddin and for six years we haven't got instructors and profes sors for Ph.D. stage. I have three little daugh ters. ... ...
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... The Politics of Recuperation and Negotiation* Susan Stanford Friedman W E ARE on the cusp of the nineties, and I sense the winds of change circulating in the universities and colleges, as well as the streets of the world-a longing for... more
... The Politics of Recuperation and Negotiation* Susan Stanford Friedman W E ARE on the cusp of the nineties, and I sense the winds of change circulating in the universities and colleges, as well as the streets of the world-a longing for the nineties ...
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... I invoke as well Wolfgang Iser's "implied reader" in literary narrative and Wendy Doniger's "implied spider" in mythic narrative, by... more
... I invoke as well Wolfgang Iser's "implied reader" in literary narrative and Wendy Doniger's "implied spider" in mythic narrative, by which she means the realm of ... Permission granted by Rabindra Bhavana/Institute of Tagore Studies, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. ...
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Periods are entities we love to hate. Yet we cannot do without them. . . . Consequently, the uses to which we put periods depend crucially on how we delimit them. . . . The art lies in the cutting. ... Coloniality, in other words, is the... more
Periods are entities we love to hate. Yet we cannot do without them. . . . Consequently, the uses to which we put periods depend crucially on how we delimit them. . . . The art lies in the cutting. ... Coloniality, in other words, is the hidden face of modernity and its very ...
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Publication View. 35530269. Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical Scenes of Reading: The Voyage Out, The Common Reader, and Her "Common Readers" (2009). Susan Stanford Friedman. Abstract. MFS Modern Fiction Studies -... more
Publication View. 35530269. Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical Scenes of Reading: The Voyage Out, The Common Reader, and Her "Common Readers" (2009). Susan Stanford Friedman. Abstract. MFS Modern Fiction Studies - Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 1992. Publication details ...
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... illustrate these four strategies with brief discussions of four exemplary texts: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, written in the 192Q's; Alicia Ostriker's The Mother/Child Papers, which came out in... more
... illustrate these four strategies with brief discussions of four exemplary texts: Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, written in the 192Q's; Alicia Ostriker's The Mother/Child Papers, which came out in 1980; Judy Grahn's The ... Neither Exodus nor Ada can nourish their girl-egg. ...
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My remarks here extend arguments I made in the Feminist Studies 1998 forum entitled "Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Wom- en's Studies," where I strongly supported the interplay of discipli- nary and interdisciplinary... more
My remarks here extend arguments I made in the Feminist Studies 1998 forum entitled "Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Wom- en's Studies," where I strongly supported the interplay of discipli- nary and interdisciplinary feminisms and expressed considerable
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"It must be Penelope's web I'm weaving," HD once wrote about "the novel" she was perpetually doing, undoing, and redoing in a lifetime of prose writing. Penelope's Web is the first book to examine fully... more
"It must be Penelope's web I'm weaving," HD once wrote about "the novel" she was perpetually doing, undoing, and redoing in a lifetime of prose writing. Penelope's Web is the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative prose writing of HD, the pen name for Hilda ...
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La transcodificazione è il passaggio da un sistema segnico a un altro, un processo di traduzione intersemiotica che trasmuta la parola in immagine, ad esempio, o il gesto in suono. I sistemi di significazione (audio-visivi,... more
La transcodificazione è il passaggio da un sistema segnico a un altro, un processo di traduzione intersemiotica che trasmuta la parola in immagine, ad esempio, o il gesto in suono. I sistemi di significazione (audio-visivi, linguistico-verbali, prossemici, cinesici) si fondano su una continua attività di transcodificazione e dunque sono intrinsecamente dialogici, plurali e sincretici.
Adottando un approccio transnazionale, multietnico e di genere alla sfera culturale dell’epoca modernista entro cui le produzioni artistiche delle donne si sono rivelate promotrici di cambiamento e di rottura con la tradizione, le autrici di questo volume hanno usato il prefisso “trans” per rintracciare ed esaltare le dinamiche di scambio fra le arti e per dimostrare come queste siano fra loro ineludibilmente interconnesse
Adottando un approccio transnazionale, multietnico e di genere alla sfera culturale dell’epoca modernista entro cui le produzioni artistiche delle donne si sono rivelate promotrici di cambiamento e di rottura con la tradizione, le autrici di questo volume hanno usato il prefisso “trans” per rintracciare ed esaltare le dinamiche di scambio fra le arti e per dimostrare come queste siano fra loro ineludibilmente interconnesse
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Of course we have come a long way (I won't say "baby") since the days when the editor of Harvard University Press solicited a proposal in 1978 for my book-in-progress Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of HD (1981), but then wrote me: "we are... more
Of course we have come a long way (I won't say "baby") since the days when the editor of Harvard University Press solicited a proposal in 1978 for my book-in-progress Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of HD (1981), but then wrote me: "we are not interested in publishing a book on H.D.'s religious poetry." Some 8 years before, Norman Holmes Pearson turned me loose in his Sterling Hall study, where he kept one half of H.D';s library. I was astounded to discover a slew of books, many of them heavily annotated, on mysticism, occultism, spiritualism, astrology, tarot, Kabbalah, and various kinds of hermetic and heterodox religious traditions and practices. Wow. The more I read, the more I saw that what underlay these readings was a deep attraction to the spiritual that took forms of resistance to mainstream religion and orthodoxy. (She would later mock T. S. Eliot's "wobbling massward," insisting to Bryher that her invocations of the Lady in Trilogy were not evidence of her turning to Catholicism). By 2018, when I was writing an essay on religion and modernism for Douglas Mao's forthcoming The New Modernist Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2020), I had the pleasure of seeing many books on early twentieth-century Euro-American writers defying Nietzsche's announcement that "God is dead"' and instead writing extensively about religion, especially esoteric religion, in many modernist writers (prominently Elizabeth Anderson's H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination: Mysticism and Writing). The intersection of feminism and religion figures prominently in studies of modernist women writers. What I found missing, however, was religion outside the Euro-American archives of modernism as well as interdisciplinary engagement with debates in religious studies more generally. As modernist studies has increasingly engaged colonialism and transnational 1
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Con la participación de Maria-Mercè Marçal, Carme Font Paz, Christine Planté, Francesca Bartrina, Susan Friedman, Peggy Kamuf, Nattie Golubov, Gabriela García Hubard, Katarzyna Paskiewicz y Diego Falconí. En un momento en el cual la... more
Con la participación de Maria-Mercè Marçal, Carme Font Paz, Christine Planté, Francesca Bartrina, Susan Friedman, Peggy Kamuf, Nattie Golubov, Gabriela García Hubard, Katarzyna Paskiewicz y Diego Falconí.
En un momento en el cual la visibilidad y la legitimidad de las mujeres creadoras se ha convertido en una reivindicación clamorosa, este volumen invita a reflexionar sobre los fundamentos de la exclusión e infravaloración de las autoras en el campo cultural. Para ello, reúne investigaciones recientes y traducciones de textos clásicos que abordan la cuestión desde un punto de vista conceptual e histórico y revisan diversas prácticas autoriales desde una perspectiva de género. Así, el libro examina cómo las nociones de autor o de creatividad están atravesadas por discursos de género y reproducen las jerarquías que sostienen el binarismo sexual, proponiendo un recorrido que abarca desde el siglo XVII a la actualidad. Además, analiza las respuestas de las críticas feministas y las resistencias de las mujeres autoras frente a la identificación implícita entre creación cultural y sujeto masculino, sin olvidar las reflexiones en torno al género de la autoría que atraviesan la teoría contemporánea. De Virginia Woolf a Jacques Derrida, de la escritura femenina de la primera modernidad al cine comercial hollywoodiense, ¿Qué es una autora? interroga los términos y los límites que decretan cómo debe ser el autor de una obra valiosa, en relación a menudo contradictoria con los términos y los límites que tradicionalmente han definido «qué es una mujer».
En un momento en el cual la visibilidad y la legitimidad de las mujeres creadoras se ha convertido en una reivindicación clamorosa, este volumen invita a reflexionar sobre los fundamentos de la exclusión e infravaloración de las autoras en el campo cultural. Para ello, reúne investigaciones recientes y traducciones de textos clásicos que abordan la cuestión desde un punto de vista conceptual e histórico y revisan diversas prácticas autoriales desde una perspectiva de género. Así, el libro examina cómo las nociones de autor o de creatividad están atravesadas por discursos de género y reproducen las jerarquías que sostienen el binarismo sexual, proponiendo un recorrido que abarca desde el siglo XVII a la actualidad. Además, analiza las respuestas de las críticas feministas y las resistencias de las mujeres autoras frente a la identificación implícita entre creación cultural y sujeto masculino, sin olvidar las reflexiones en torno al género de la autoría que atraviesan la teoría contemporánea. De Virginia Woolf a Jacques Derrida, de la escritura femenina de la primera modernidad al cine comercial hollywoodiense, ¿Qué es una autora? interroga los términos y los límites que decretan cómo debe ser el autor de una obra valiosa, en relación a menudo contradictoria con los términos y los límites que tradicionalmente han definido «qué es una mujer».