Gendered Agents - Women and Institutional Knowledge

Comprised pf a number of previously published articles that appeared in boundary 2.

List of contents

Introduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1

1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge

Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67

The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123

Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144

2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies

Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161

America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192

Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245

"The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279

Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306

3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency

Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325

Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349

Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371

The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396

Index 423

About the author

Silvestra Mariniello and Paul A. Bové, eds.

Summary

Comprised pf a number of previously published articles that appeared in boundary 2.

Product details

• Authors: Mariniello
• Assisted by: Paul A. Bove (Editor), Paul A Bové (Editor), Paul A. Bové (Editor), Silvestra Mariniello (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.1998
• EAN: 9780822321798
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2179-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Weight: 553 g
• Illustrations: 3 figures
• Series: A Boundary 2 Book; Boundary 2 Book; A Boundary 2 Book; Boundary 2 Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories