Title
Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female
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Description
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range of interventions which suggest that philosophical and material articulations with the third world shaped modernism, an emphasis on modernist "universals" persists. Ramanathan argues that women and third-world authors have reshaped received notions of the modern and revised orthodox ideas on the modern aesthetic.
ISBN
978-0415509701
Publication Date
5-9-2012
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
Keywords
Modernism, gender, women authors, third-world authors, Bessie Head, Josiane Racine, T.Obinkaram Echewa, Raja Rao, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sembene Ousmane, Salman Rushdie, Ana Castillo, Attia Hossain, Bapsi Sidhwa, Sahar Khalifeh
Disciplines
Comparative Literature
Recommended Citation
Ramanathan, Geetha, "Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female" (2012). College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Books. 3.
https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/casfaculty_books/3