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Transatlantic Women's Literature Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson

Transatlantic Women's Literature By Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson

Transatlantic Women's Literature by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson


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A sustained analysis of Transatlantic women's literature of the twentieth century, focusing on narratives of travel and adventure, with an expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to encompass Canada, South America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Transatlantic Women's Literature Summary

Transatlantic Women's Literature by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson

Transatlantic Women's Literature is a valuable contribution to the evolving debate surrounding Transatlantic Studies and transatlantic literature. Its originality and importance lie in its focus on 20th century women's narratives of travel and adventure, and its deliberate expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to include Canada, South America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. The crisscrossing of the Atlantic is contested and problematised throughout. The book explores culturally resonant literature that imagines views from both sides and examines the imaginary, in-between space of the Atlantic. It offers a considered exploration of the way in which the space of the Atlantic-and women's space-work together in the construction of meaning in transatlantic texts. Focusing on contemporary literature, this book engages with a range of genres, from novellas and novels to essays, memoirs, and travel literature. Nella Larsen's Quicksand is read alongside Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine in relation to constructions of the exotic; Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation is explored in relation to memoirs of travel such as Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train; and Anne Tyler's transatlantic novel The Accidental Tourist is read alongside her latest transpacific novel, Digging to America as well as Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune. Readers will gain an appreciation of the complexity of the transatlantic narrative and the ways in which these narratives are defined by and infused with gender considerations.

Transatlantic Women's Literature Reviews

Since theories of transnationalism and globalization have often been accused of privileging the male gaze, Macpherson's book, by reconsidering a wide range of women's writing from a transatlantic perspective, also makes an important contribution to wider issues in cultural politics. Her argument encompasses authors not normally considered within this kind of critical framework and it produces a book of some critical sophistication. -- Paul Giles, Professor of American Literature, University of Oxford Macpherson opens her s tudy with an extremely useful survey of recent theories about travel and travel writing, and about womens' travel narratives in particular... Her individual readings usefully open up, through localized textual discussion, what it may mean to feel foreign, and how women, in particular, may engage with this affect--which is, as she makes clear, not necessarily a disorienting experience in a negative sense. -- Kate Flint, Rutgers University Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Since theories of transnationalism and globalization have often been accused of privileging the male gaze, Macpherson's book, by reconsidering a wide range of women's writing from a transatlantic perspective, also makes an important contribution to wider issues in cultural politics. Her argument encompasses authors not normally considered within this kind of critical framework and it produces a book of some critical sophistication. Macpherson opens her s tudy with an extremely useful survey of recent theories about travel and travel writing, and about womens' travel narratives in particular... Her individual readings usefully open up, through localized textual discussion, what it may mean to feel foreign, and how women, in particular, may engage with this affect--which is, as she makes clear, not necessarily a disorienting experience in a negative sense.

About Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson

Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University. She is the author of Courting Failure: Women and the Law in 20th-Century Literature (University of Akron Press, 2007), Women's Movement: Escape as Transgression in North American Feminist Fiction (Rodopi, 2000) and co-editor of Transatlantic Studies (UPA, 2000), New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies (UPA, 2002) and Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History (a 3-volume encyclopedia) (ABC-Clio, 2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part One: The Exoticised Other; 1. Constructing Race across the Atlantic: Nella Larsen's Quicksand; 2. Assimilation in the Heartland: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine; Part Two: Memoirs and Transatlantic Travel; 3. The Anti-Tourist: Jenny Diski's Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America With Interruptions; 4. 'There is No World Outside the Text': Transatlantic Slippage in Eve Hoffman's Lost in Translation; Part Three: Negotiating the Foreign/ Re-Inventing Home; 5. Revisiting the Family: Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist; 6. Cross-Dressing and Transnational Space: Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune; Conclusion.

Additional information

NPB9780748624454
9780748624454
0748624457
Transatlantic Women's Literature by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson
New
Hardback
Edinburgh University Press
2008-11-04
192
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