Sigmund Freud elaborates the conceptualization of the unhomely (uncanny) from a psychoanalytical perspective in his 1919 essay “Das Unheimliche.” Thereafter, Martin Heidegger, in Being and Time, probes the idea from a philosophical aspect, asserting that the unhomely is an existential–ontological state of human existence; and subsequently, Homi K. Bhabha has identified the political significance of the concept. In her 2015 fiction The Little Red Chairs, based on the war crimes of a Bosnian Serb leader, Edna O’Brien, as a literary cartographer, maps and appraises historical figures and events in the spaces of the imaginative and the real. The novel powerfully exemplifies the theorization of the unhomely and illuminates Judith Butler’s theories of precariousness and interdependency through the delineation of displacement, violence, and characters’ psychological movements.
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{"title":"Atypical True Crime, Laughing at Offenders, and the Publishing Industry: An Interview with Myriam Gurba","authors":"Hannah Spruce","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47170013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay analyzes Livi Michael’s novel Under a Thin Moon (1992) and Loretta Ramkissoon’s short memoir “Which Floor?” (2019) to examine representations of female experience of living in high-rise social housing. My analysis draws on the work of Henri Lefebvre and Doreen Massey to investigate the production of the tower block as a social space. The lift is employed as a lens to study the structuring and shaping of the high-rise narrative and explore how fiction can both reinforce and challenge dominant mythologies of social housing. The lift’s role is considered through themes of gendered experiences of disgust (stickiness) and mobilities (getting stuck). In Under a Thin Moon, the tower block lift embodies the narrative of the failure of the utopian solutions to the postwar housing crisis in the UK and its consequences. In “Which Floor?,” although the lift is a space inherent in the facilitation and nurturing of community, it nevertheless similarly captures a narrative of the immobility of high-rise life.
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The campus novel has predominantly explored the development of adolescent boys. Where girls’ narratives have existed, intellectual development has typically been established as a secondary preoccupation, in favor of a central characterization of the campus as a space for heterosexual romance. I argue that this tradition is subverted in Sylvia Brownrigg’s Pages for You (2001) and Susan Choi’s My Education (2013), which reconfigure the campus novel by placing narrative concentration on girls’ intellectual development and queer sexual experiences. Consequently, these novels release girls from the limits by which their stories have conventionally been contained.
{"title":"Girl, Interrupted: Queering the Campus Novel","authors":"Angelica De Vido","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The campus novel has predominantly explored the development of adolescent boys. Where girls’ narratives have existed, intellectual development has typically been established as a secondary preoccupation, in favor of a central characterization of the campus as a space for heterosexual romance. I argue that this tradition is subverted in Sylvia Brownrigg’s Pages for You (2001) and Susan Choi’s My Education (2013), which reconfigure the campus novel by placing narrative concentration on girls’ intellectual development and queer sexual experiences. Consequently, these novels release girls from the limits by which their stories have conventionally been contained.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48343980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma and Recovery: New Challenges to Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture","authors":"Justine Dymond","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpac014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpac014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay argues that Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion (1987) employs the past to examine the present and explores the role of love in Thatcherism. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), it proposes that Winterson opposes the passions that defined the decade—Thatcherite love of nation and money—with feminist and queer reconceptions of love based on connection, community, and otherness. By showing how the novel’s critique of Thatcherism intersects with critiques of heteropatriarchy, the essay challenges the view that Winterson’s fiction privileges matters of the heart over social and political issues. Anticipating Ahmed’s analysis, Winterson demonstrates that, while love often sustains inequality and injustice, love reconceived has the potential to reshape the world—a theme that becomes central to her later work.
本文认为，珍妮特·温特森（Jeanette Winterson）1987年的《激情》（The Passion）以过去审视现在，并探讨了爱在撒切尔主义中的作用。根据萨拉·艾哈迈德（Sara Ahmed）的《情感的文化政治》（The Cultural Politics of Emotion，2004），该书提出，温特森反对定义这十年的激情——撒切尔主义对国家和金钱的爱——以及基于联系、社区和他人的女权主义和酷儿对爱的理解。通过展示小说对撒切尔主义的批判与对异父权制的批判是如何交叉的，这篇文章挑战了温特森的小说将核心问题置于社会和政治问题之上的观点。温特森预见到了艾哈迈德的分析，她证明，虽然爱往往会维持不平等和不公正，但重新认识的爱有可能重塑世界——这一主题成为她后来作品的核心。
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{"title":"Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction: Girls’ Own Stories","authors":"Xiuchun Zhang","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48069871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrating History, Home and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat","authors":"Yilun Cai, Sulu Cai","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpad002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48195625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale and Beyond","authors":"K. Massoura","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpac012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpac012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41454094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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