Borderwork
Subtitle: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature (Reading Women Writing)
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: November 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801428692
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Comparative Literature; Women In Literature; Sociology; Feminist literary criticism; Literature, Comparative
First sentence: The experience of academic feminist criticism since the 1970s has created almost insurmountable differences between "Western" modes of analysis of the concrete status of women in various non-Western cultures on the one hand, and non-Western women's subjective experience of their own position on the other.