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About Feminisms Redux Robyn Warhol-Down Diane Price Herndl ix
Acknowledgments xix
Canons 3
"Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship" from The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (1979) Sandra M. Gilbert Sesan Gubar 9
"Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism" (1980) Annette Kolodny 21
"What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism" (1981) Bonnie Zimmerman 40
"Aesthetics" from How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) Joanna Russ 61
"Caste, Class, and Canon" (1981/1987) Paul Lauter 70
"A Criticism of Our Own: Autonomy and Assimilation in Afro-American and Feminist Literary Theory" (1989) Elaine Showalter 92
"Introduction" from Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, Difference (1997) Juliana Makuchi Nafh-Abbenyi 113
Readings 131
"Introduction: On the Politics of Literature" from The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction (1978) Judith Fetterley 136
"The Father's Seduction" from The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982) Jane Gallop 146
"Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the Text" (1985) Catherine Belsey 164
"Introduction" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) Eve Kosofsky Sedwick 181
"Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles" from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) Eve Kosofsky Sedwick 198
"Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" (1986) Barbara Johnson 206
"Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do withIt?" (1986) Biddy Martin Chandra Talpade Mohanty 220
"The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism" (1990) Barbara Christian 238
"Two Girls, Fat and Thin" (2002) Lauren Berlant 244
Histories 277
"Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" from The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986) Paula Gunn Allen 284
"La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness" from Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) Gloria Anzaluda 303
"Me and My Shadow" (1989) Jane Tomplins 314
"The Long Goodbye: Against Personal Testimony, or an Infant Grifter Grows Up" (1992) Linda S. Kauffman 328
"Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature" (1993) Shirley Geik-Lin Lim 345
"Four Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 365
"Introduction" from En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (2000) 390
Bodies 411
"The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975) Hélène Cixous 416
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) Laura Mulvey 432
"Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987) Hortense J. Spillers 443
"Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions" from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1999) Judith Butler 465
"Reconstructing the Posthurnan Feminist Body Twenty Years after Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals" (2002) Diane Price Herndl 477
"Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" (2002) Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 487
"The Cringe: Marriage Plots, Effeminacy, and Feminist Ambivalence" from Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms (2003) Robyn Warhol-Down 514
About the Authors 525
Alternative Arrangements for Feminisms Redux 533
Author/Title Index 539
Permissions 541
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reviewed Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism on July 24, 2014
Feminisms Redux: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism
I read Cathy Caruth's book Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History for a research project I'm working on. The author is well known for her work on trauma theory.
According to Caruth, "the term trauma is understood as a wound inflicted not upon the body but upon the mind" (3). "In its most general definition, trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden or catastrophic events in which the response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena" (11). Caruth applies trauma theory to works by Freud, Kant, and Lacan, among others.
The most interesting part of Unclaimed, though, is not found in the book itself. One chapter analyzes the French film Hiroshima mon amour in terms of trauma theory. Naturally, I immediately had to rent and watch the movie for myself.
Filmed in 1959, Hiroshima follows a French actress making a movie about "peace" in Hiroshima. She has a brief and intense sexual encounter with a Japanese man. The relationship releases the traumatic experiences both endure because of the war: the woman's German lover is killed, and she is ostracized; the man's family perishes in Hiroshima while he is away fighting in the war.
Perhaps the most moving element of the film, though, is the actual footage of bombing victims. I could only weep at the images of mangled, burned, and dying children.
For someone so obsessed with atrocities committed in Europe during WWII, I am ashamed for practically ignoring the carnage perpetrated by Americans. If only Caruth could tell me how to reconcile myself with this part of my own history, with the trauma inflicted by American hands.
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