Borderwork
Subtitle: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature (Reading Women Writing)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: November 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801481079
Subjects: Feminism; Literary studies: general; Literature, Comparative; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Women Authors; Feminist literary criticism
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.