Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space

by Margaret R. Higonnet

Book Overview

This collection of essays looks at the literary representations of space - physical, psychological political and cultural - from a perspective that is at once comparative and feminist. Combining historical analysis with literary theory, the contributors explore the changing definitions of woman's place through such themes as exile and exclusion, property and territoriality, and the body as interface between individual and communal identities. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870239376
• ISBN13: 9780870239373
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 212 Pages