Women in transition : crossing boundaries, crossing borders /: crossing boundaries, crossing borders. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maria José Blanco and Claire Williams.
• Editors: Blanco, Maria-José; Dr, Williams, Claire
• Contents: Introduction: Women in Transition Claire Williams and Maria-José Blanco Part I: Crossing Boundaries Body and Mind 1 Mònica Rovira (Filmmaker, Barcelona, Spain) The Making of To See a Woman 2 Diana Aramburu (University of California, Davis, USA) Exposing the Monstrous Double: The Body in Crisis in Meritxell Bosch’s Graphic Autobiography 3 Maria-José Blanco (King’s College London, UK) Filling in the Gaps between Childhood and Menopause in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama 4 Edward Scrivens (Oxford University, UK) Dichotomies of the Feminine: Mediating Women and the Boundaries of the Primordial in Ancient Egyptian Textual Culture Motherhood 5 Anna Johnson (Writer, UK) Cascading Transitions: Becoming a Writer and Engaging with Neurodiversity in Response to Motherhood 6 Feifei Zhan (SOAS, University of London, UK) The Ambiguity of Pain: Self, Fragments and Female Connection in Chen Ran’s A Private Life Part II: Crossing Borders Exile and Diaspora 7 Marcia Thompson (Artist, London, UK) Vanishing Lines 8 Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergul (Performing Artists and Academics, London, UK) Border Crossing Bibliophiles: Just in Bookcase by Istanbul Queer Art Collective 9 Indrani Karmakar (Rhodes University, South Africa) Transitional Figures: Partition, Victimhood and Agency in Two Fictions by Jyotirmoyee Devi 10 Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford, UK) Transnational Melancholia: Depression and Exile in Italian Women’s Poetry from Early-Modern to Contemporary Age Space and Place 11 Sandra Daroczi (University of Bath, UK) Narrative Horse Power in Julia Kristeva’s Fiction: Reading Movement in Meurtre à Byzance (2004) and Thérèse mon amour (2008) 12 Claire Williams (University of Oxford, UK) ‘Putting the Fish in the Stream’: The Intersection of Literature and Biography in Guidebooks to (Clarice Lispector’s) Rio and (Maria Ondina Braga’s) Braga 13 Adalgisa Giorgio (University of Bath, UK) Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels with the Grain: The View of a Female Academic from Southern Italy 14 Suzan Bozkurt (Independent Scholar, UK) Stepping out into Cyberspace: How Women Negotiate Digital Spaces in Politics, Economics and Culture
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.93352042; Women in literature; Sex role in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Motherhood in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Exiles in literature; Women -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000383324; 9781000383300; 9780367771638
• Related ISBNs: 9780367443061
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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