Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Women Authors
| Author: | Roberta Garrett, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton, Kristine Miller, Jago Morrison, Ana-Karina Schneider, Corina Selejan, Karin Sellberg, Heather Yeung, Noraini Md Yusof Md | ISBN: | 9781498500968 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | October 21, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Roberta Garrett, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton, Kristine Miller, Jago Morrison, Ana-Karina Schneider, Corina Selejan, Karin Sellberg, Heather Yeung, Noraini Md Yusof Md |
| ISBN: | 9781498500968 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | October 21, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that “on or about December 1910 human character changed,” has marked such a singular point in the perception of time, identity and nature. Women’s writing has always been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and point of view beyond that of the “man” of reason. This collection of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century.
9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that “on or about December 1910 human character changed,” has marked such a singular point in the perception of time, identity and nature. Women’s writing has always been something of a counter-canon, offering modes of voice and point of view beyond that of the “man” of reason. This collection of essays explores the two problems of what it means to write as a woman and what it means to write in the twenty-first century.
