Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference - Couverture souple

Gambrell, Alice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521556880 ISBN 13 : 9780521556880

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

An historical and theoretical analysis of the way gender and race become objects of academic inquiry.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

How do gender and race become objects of intellectual inquiry? What happens to marginal discourses when they participate in the academic processes of scrutiny and evaluation? In Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference, Alice Gambrell examines the careers of a group of women intellectuals - Leonora Carrington, Ella Deloria, H. D., Zora Neale Hurston, and Frida Kahlo - whose scholarly rediscovery coincided with the rise of feminist and minority discourse studies in the academy. She examines the exhibitions, memoirs, poems, ethnographies, and personal correspondences these women produced, combining concrete local observation with contemporary theoretical perspectives on race and gender. Through a mixture of empirical detail and theoretical speculation, Gambrell explores the role these women played in expanding the conception of American literature by their involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. She offers new ways of thinking about the relationships between cultural studies, feminism and minority discourse within the ongoing reassessment of modernism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521556880
• ISBN 13: 9780521556880
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible