The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing: (Routledge Literature Companions)

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women’s writing in the global context. Movements and experiences continuously shaping the twenty-first century clarify the urgent need for expanding and re-envisioning academic and social definitions of gender, location, and creative expression. The Companion forges new directions in and conceptualizations of identity, experience, and practice of diverse communities across the world. The volume provides a conjunctive methodology, building on existing scholarly frameworks while encouraging readers to envision new possibilities that enhance future conversations and a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, ranging from established authors’ commentary on key debates to the innovative work of emerging scholars and practitioners. Offering diverse critical and creative access to the nexus of women’s writing, this Companion provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Centering Peripheralized Spaces and Voices Part I: Politics and Conflict Reading the Cold War of the 1970s through the Lens of Women’s Press: The Case of Women’s Voice Magazine in Turkey, Gamze Sarıtunalı Elverişli and Faika Çelik Dolly Mixtures: A Women’s Writing Group amidst Conflict, Ashley M. Morin Vietnamese American Women’s Writing: Claiming the Space in-between, Luna Chung Heroine Chicks: Reporting for Duty on the Front Page, Farrah Hersh Social Media and Women in Politics, Devjani Roy How Can the Personal Stories of Twenty-first-century Refugee and Migrant Girls Be Heard? The Dilemma of Coming to Voice on Digital Platforms, Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz Part II: The Body and Resistance Individual and Communal Resistance in Contemporary Reproductive Dystopias, Raluca Andreescu Writing the Dalit Transwoman: Caste and Queer Intersectionalities in India, Natasha Negi and Antara Chatterjee A Conversation about Transfeminism with Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha Part III: Language and Creative Writing Reshaping Polynesian Narrative: Chantal Spitz and Her Audacious Counter-Discourse against Colonial Oppression and Factitious Myth, Sandrine Teixidor Voices of Mia Farang: Thai Lower-Middle-Class Women’s Storytelling from the Late 1990s-2017, Pattarat Phantprasit Claudia Piñeiro’s Un comunista en calzoncillos: A Father’s Non-Hegemonic Masculinity and Manliness, Carolina Rocha Translatorship Empowering Feminism: Xue Qiying’s Translation of and Commentary on Milian hunshi [Milian’s Marital Story] (1924), Wenxi Li Complaining of Work in Blogs: Women Teachers’ Rhetorical Labour of Denouncing Injustice, Momoyo Mitsuno From Jane Eyre to Xuela Claudette Richardson: Reading Charlotte Bronte through Jamaica Kincaid, Manisha Basu Caught in-between: Chinese Feminism in Contemporary Script Writing for TV Dramas Kacey Jianwen Liu Women’s Language at the Intersections of Linguistic Change and Identity, Becky Childs Part IV: Nature and Ecofeminism Magic and Terror in Easterine Kire’s Ecological Fiction: Indigenous Naga Ecofeminism and Conservation Ethics, Lucy Keneikhrienuo Yhome and Meghna Christina Mudaliar Temporality, Cyclones, and Planetary Fiction: The Case of Mutiny by Lindsay Collen Gargi Binju Global Women’s Writing and Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Sukanya Gupta Part V: Artistic Expressions and Women’s Empowerment Writing/Righting the Indian City: Graffiti and the Gendered Semiotics of Excess, Sanchita Khurana Interpreting Female Bodies, Envisaging Female Identity: Investigating Visual Culture and Orality in Women-Centric Sanjhi in North India, Muskan Dhandhi and Suman Sigroha Hilarious, Sad and Didactic: Hanane el-Fadili’s Tribute to Older Unmarried Women in Her Comedy Show The Daughters of Si Taher, Sarali Gintsburg

About the Author :
Ina C. Seethaler received her Ph.D. in English with a graduate minor in Women’s and Gender Studies from Saint Louis University. She serves as Associate Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, USA. Her research connects gender, migration, and literature. She has published, among others, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a/ b: Auto/Biography Studies, Feminist Formations, and American Studies. Her book Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice on immigrant women’s life writing, nationality, and social justice was published in 2021. Tripthi Pillai holds a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago. A Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, USA, she serves as Associate Dean in the College for Humanities and Fine Arts. Her recent publications include “Mourner-Confessors: The Masala Intercommunity of Women in Rudaali and Hamlet” in postmedieval; “Rash’s Shakespearean Ecologies: Autopoietic and Allopoietic Remediations of Serena in Macbeth” in Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash; “Cute Lacerations in Doctor Faustus and Omkara” in The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness; and “Shoe Talk and Shoe Silence in The Two Gentlemen of Verona” in Object Oriented Environs.