Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-31255-9
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plate, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements PART I: CONSUMING MEMORIES Remembering the Past, Manufacturing Memories: Contemporary Women's Rewriting and/as Cultural Memory PART II: FAIR USE En/gendering Cultural Memory: Rereading, Rewriting and the Politics of Recognition Women's Rewriting as Counter-memory: An ABC of 'Stolentelling' (Authorship, Branding, and Copyright) PART III: CULTURAL SCRIPTS Untold Stories: 'Writing Back' to Silence High Infidelity: Tradition, Rewriting and the Paradoxes of Decanonization PART IV: MYTHICAL RETURNS Winged Words: Women's Rewriting as Remythologizing Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

LIEDEKE PLATE is Assistant Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Chair of the Dutch Women's Studies Association.