Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Womens Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to womens writing in the global context. Movements and experiences continuously shaping the twenty-first century clarify the urgent need for expanding and re-envisioning academic and social definitions of gender, location, and creative expression. The companion forges new directions in and conceptualizations of identity, experience, and practice of diverse communities across the world. The volume provides a conjunctive methodology, building on existing scholarly frameworks while encouraging readers to envision new possibilities that enhance future conversations and a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, ranging from established authors commentary on key debates to the innovative work of emerging scholars and practitioners. Offering diverse critical and creative access to the nexus of womens writing, this companion provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.
Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Womens Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to womens writing in the global context.
Introduction: Centering Peripheralized Spaces and Voices
Part I: Politics and Conflict
Reading the Cold War of the 1970s through the Lens of Womens Press: The Case
of Womens Voice Magazine in Turkey,
Gamze Sartunal Elverili and Faika Ēelik
Dolly Mixtures: A Womens Writing Group amidst Conflict,
Ashley M. Morin
Vietnamese American Womens Writing: Claiming the Space in-between,
Luna Chung
Heroine Chicks: Reporting for Duty on the Front Page,
Farrah Hersh
Social Media and Women in Politics,
Devjani Roy
How Can the Personal Stories of Twenty-first-century Refugee and Migrant
Girls Be
Heard? The Dilemma of Coming to Voice on Digital Platforms,
Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz
Part II: The Body and Resistance
Individual and Communal Resistance in Contemporary Reproductive Dystopias,
Raluca Andreescu
Writing the Dalit Transwoman: Caste and Queer Intersectionalities in India,
Natasha Negi and Antara Chatterjee
A Conversation about Transfeminism with Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha
Part III: Language and Creative Writing
Reshaping Polynesian Narrative: Chantal Spitz and Her Audacious
Counter-Discourse against Colonial Oppression and Factitious Myth,
Sandrine Teixidor
Voices of Mia Farang: Thai Lower-Middle-Class Womens Storytelling from the
Late
1990s-2017,
Pattarat Phantprasit
Claudia Pińeiros Un comunista en calzoncillos: A Fathers Non-Hegemonic
Masculinity
and Manliness,
Carolina Rocha
Translatorship Empowering Feminism: Xue Qiyings Translation of and
Commentary
on Milian hunshi [ Milians Marital Story] (1924),
Wenxi Li
Complaining of Work in Blogs: Women Teachers Rhetorical Labour of Denouncing
Injustice,
Momoyo Mitsuno
From Jane Eyre to Xuela Claudette Richardson: Reading Charlotte Bronte
through
Jamaica Kincaid, Manisha Basu
Caught in-between: Chinese Feminism in Contemporary Script Writing for TV
Dramas
Kacey Jianwen Liu
Womens Language at the Intersections of Linguistic Change and Identity,
Becky Childs
Part IV: Nature and Ecofeminism
Magic and Terror in Easterine Kires Ecological Fiction: Indigenous Naga
Ecofeminism
and Conservation Ethics,
Lucy Keneikhrienuo Yhome and Meghna Christina Mudaliar
Temporality, Cyclones, and Planetary Fiction: The Case of Mutiny by Lindsay
Collen
Gargi Binju
Global Womens Writing and Eco-Cosmopolitanism,
Sukanya Gupta
Part V: Artistic Expressions and Womens Empowerment
Writing/Righting the Indian City: Graffiti and the Gendered Semiotics of
Excess,
Sanchita Khurana
Interpreting Female Bodies, Envisaging Female Identity: Investigating Visual
Culture and Orality in Women-Centric Sanjhi in North India,
Muskan Dhandhi and Suman Sigroha
Hilarious, Sad and Didactic: Hanane el-Fadilis Tribute to Older Unmarried
Women in Her Comedy Show The Daughters of Si Taher,
Sarali Gintsburg
Ina C. Seethaler received her Ph.D. in English with a graduate minor in Womens and Gender Studies from Saint Louis University. She serves as Associate Professor and Director of Womens and Gender Studies at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, USA. Her research connects gender, migration, and literature. She has published, among others, in Frontiers: A Journal of Womens Studies, Womens Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Feminist Formations, and American Studies. Her book Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Womens Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice on immigrant women's life writing, nationality, and social justice was published by SUNY Press in 2021.
Tripthi Pillai holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago. A Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, USA, she serves as Associate Dean in the College for Humanities and Fine Arts. Her recent publications include Mourner-Confessors: The Masala Intercommunity of Women in Rudaali and Hamlet in postmedieval; Rashs Shakespearean Ecologies: Autopoietic and Allopoietic Remediations of Serena in Macbeth in Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash; Cute Lacerations in Doctor Faustus and Omkara in The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness; and Shoe Talk and Shoe Silence in The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Object Oriented Environs.
