Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism

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.

Offers a new theoretical approach for feminist literary and cultural criticism Presents a transnational collectivity of women creators located in five countries Analyses texts from five different genres: film, cartoon, webs series, short-story, and the novel

Autorentext

Java Singh hat einen Doktortitel in spanischer Literatur von der JNU, Neu-Delhi, und einen MBA vom IIM, Ahmedabad. Sie wurde mit dem Rafael-Iruzubieta-Preis ausgezeichnet, weil sie die beste Studentin in ihrer MA-Klasse (Spanisch) an der JNU war. Auf der Konferenz der South Asian Literary Association 2017 in Philadelphia gewann sie den Preis für den besten Vortrag. Ihre Kurzgeschichte wurde bei einem von Unisun Publications organisierten Wettbewerb als Zweitplatzierte bewertet und in der Anthologie ausgewählter Geschichten mit dem Titel Two is Company (2010) veröffentlicht. Ihr jüngstes Buch ist Post-Humanist Nomadisms in Non-Oedipal Spatiality (2022), erschienen bei Vernon Press, USA. Ein weiteres Buch Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective (2020) wurde von Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, veröffentlicht.

Klappentext

The Anthropological Vector.- The Geographic Vector.- The Psychological Vector.- The Literary Vector.- The Resultant Vector: A Model for Spatial Gynocritics.- Cristin Peri Rossi's Postmodernist Short Story.- Manjula Padmanabhan's Science Fiction Novel.- Lucrecia Martel's Transnational Cinema.- Sumukhi Suresh's Satiricial Comedy.- Carol Lay's Comics.

Inhalt
The Anthropological Vector.- The Geographic Vector.- The Psychological Vector.- The Literary Vector.- The Resultant Vector: A Model for Spatial Gynocritics.- Cristin Peri Rossi's Postmodernist Short Story.- Manjula Padmanabhan's Science Fiction Novel.- Lucrecia Martel's Transnational Cinema.- Sumukhi Suresh's Satiricial Comedy.- Carol Lay's Comics.