Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, Alex Ullman, Jennifer Glaser, Jessica Kirzane, Josh Lambert, Karen Skinazi, Rachel Rubinstein, Tahneer Oksman

Автор: Alex Ullman, Jennifer Glaser, Jessica Kirzane, Josh Lambert, Karen Skinazi, Rachel Rubinstein, Tahneer Oksman
Название: Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
ISBN: 0814349854 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814349854
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers' wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features innovative considerations of contemporary autofiction, graphic narratives, and novels by Mizrahi writers as well as middlebrow, Progressive Era, and second-wave feminist literature. Authors discussed herein--such as Roz Chast, Erica Jong, Annie Nathan Meyer, and Adrienne Rich--challenge monolithic representations of Jewishness and gender while imagining radical alternatives. By tracing a matrilineal literary history, this book dissents from readers and critics who continue to describe women's contributions as mere commentaries on and correctives to male-dominated canons. Simultaneously, this volume troubles the politics of inheritance, continuity, and lineage to underscore the ways that literary traditions--like Jewishness and gender--are mutually constitutive and continually in flux.Collectively, contributors reframe Jewish American literary history through feminist approaches that have revolutionized the field, from intersectionality and the #MeToo movement to queer theory and disability studies. Examining both canonical and lesser-known texts, this collection asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production?

Автор: Emma O. Berat
Название: Women`s Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination: Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages
ISBN: 1009434756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009434751
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Uncovering the many striking female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts, Emma O. Berat explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Genealogy, used to justify a character's present power and project it onto the future, was crucial to medieval political, literary, and historical thought. While patrilineage often limited women to exceptional or passive roles, other genealogical forms that represent and promote women's claims are widespread in medieval texts. Female characters transmit power through book patronage and reading, enduring landmarks, and international travel, as well as childbearing and succession. These flexible – if messy – genealogies reflect the web of political, biological, and spiritual relations that frequently characterized elite women's lives. Examining hagiography, chronicles, genealogical rolls, and French, English, and Latin romances, as well as associated codices and images, Berat highlights the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.