Feminism in Multi-Cultural Literature

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This collection of articles on feminista issues provides in-depth analysis of the literary works they analyze. The theoretical framework is up-to-date and solid. The interdisciplinary articles deal with American, English, French, Latin American and Spanish literatures. Essays: Feminist Perspectives: An Introduction (Antonio Sobejano-Moran); Women’s Desire and Feminine Desires: the Symbolic and the Semiotic in Wuthering Heights (Nick McCarthy); Feminine Erotics. The Subversion of Desire in the Novels of Nineteenth Century Women (Amy Rosewarne); Reading Women Reading Helen: Revisionary Myth-Making in Sappho and H.D. (Anita George); Kathy Acker’s Corpus: a Subversive Body of Texts (Rich Calvin); ‘Gilded Cages’ and ‘Concave Mirrors’ Female Prisons in Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter (Catherine Lappas); Gender, Sexuality, and ‘Woman’ in Li Ang’s The Butcher’s Wife (Micheline M. Soong); The Tantalizing Absence of Gender Reference in the ‘Prlogo al lector’ by Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz (Ana Kothe); Theology of a Feminine Liberation: Lorca, Esquivel and Kant (Salvatore Poeta); Almodvar’s Women: Passionate, Subversive and Postmodern (Jess Rodriguez); Violence in Marguerite Duras’ Writing (Fabienne Venturino); Textual/Sexual Authority: Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (Amy B. Millstone); Recovering, Re-covering, and the Translation of Work by Rosa Chacel and Mara Sambrano (Carol Maier). Other Womens Studies Books 2021 – Motherlove – The Cosmic Energy that Creates and Shapes All Things: A Feminist Metaphysics 2008 – Humor of Marguerite De Navarre in the Heptameron. a Feminist Author Before Her Time 2009 –