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Reconfigured Spheres
Feminist Explorations of Literary Space
by Margaret R. Higonnet
ISBN: 0870239376
ISBN-13: 9780870239373
Format: Hardcover
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"The feminist critics in ^Reconfigured Spheres^ explore politically charged literary spaces....It is an engaged examination of the literary text's potential to expose, contest and resist the representations that reinforce the self-proclaimed rights of dominant cultures to define and control global spaces." -- MaryEllen Higgins
-- Boston Book Review
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Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Published date: 1994
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds
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RECONFIGURED SPHERES: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space
Higonnet, Margaret R., and Joan Templeton, eds
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. x, 212 pp. List of contributors, 11 essays. This collection of essays looks at literary representations of space--physical, psychological, political, and cultural; examines the relationship between gender and geography in a broad array of texts and contexts, from the early novel to contemporary Caribbean and Chicana literature; explores the changing definitions of "women's place"; and shows how maps of gender overlay with maps of status. Minor rubbing to covers.. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 16 x 23 cm. ( more information)
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