Increasing interest in the conceptualization of “Transnational Literatures” calls for a re-appraisal of the role of gender in contesting official discourses of nation and power. As early as 1938, Virginia Woolf claimed that, “in fact, as a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”1 In “Towards a New Consciousness,” Gloria Anzaldúa describes the dialogic nature of living across Borderlands ...
Event type:
Publication
Categories:
Postcolonial [1]
American [3]
Comparative [5]
British [7]
Genre & Form [8]
Popular Culture [9]
Gender & Sexuality [10]
Sponsoring Organization(s) :
Saint Xavier University
Event date:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Abstract due date:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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