1st Edition

Locating Gender in Modernism The Outsider Female

By Geetha Ramanathan Copyright 2012
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction  1: The Female Outsider in the Modern  2: Modernisms and the Woman in History  3: Figuring the Female in Modern Realisms  4: Magical Women in the Modern  5: Modern Women in Feminist Realisms  Conclusion

Biography

Geetha Ramanathan is Professor of Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies at West Chester University, USA.