13. Cross Fire and Collaboration among Comparative Literature, Feminism, and the New Historicism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. CROSS-CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF FEMALE SUBJECTS
6. 1. Dissymmetry Embodied: Feminism, Universalism, and the Practice of Excision 19
7. 2. “Changing Masters” : Gender, Genre, and the Discourses of Slavery 42
8. 3. Life after Rape: Narrative, Theory, and Feminism 61
9. PART II. GENRE THEORY
10. 4. Modifications of Genre: A Feminist Critique of “Christabel” and “Die Braut von Korinth” 81
11. 5. Female Difficulties, Comparativist Challenge: Novels by English and German Women, 1752-1814 100
12. 6. Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence 120
13. 7. Cassandra's Question: Do Women Write War Novels? 144
14. 8. Jane' s Family Romances 162
15. PART III. SITES OF CRITICAL PRACTICE
16. 9. Philoctetes' Sister: Feminist Literary Criticism and the New Misogyny 189
17. 10. One Must Go Quickly from One Light into Another: Between Ingeborg Bachmann and Jacques Derrida 207
18. 11. Dangerous Crossings: Gender and Criticism in Arabic Literary Studies 224
19. 12. Identity Politics as a Comparative Poetics 230
20. PART IV. FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS
21. 13. Cross Fire and Collaboration among Comparative Literature, Feminism, and the New Historicism 247
22. 14. Talking Shop: A Comparative Feminist Approach to Caribbean Literature by Women 267
23. 15. Compared to What? Global Feminism, Comparatism, and the Master' s Tools 280
24. 16. Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology 301
25. Notes on Contributors 319
26. Index 323