Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)
by: Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (Editor),Julia Kuznetski (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 2018/7/11
Language: English
Print Length: 266 pages
ISBN-10: 1138321990
ISBN-13: 9781138321991
Book Description
Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large.
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Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Feminity in Present-day Transnational Diasporic Writing explores the role of women in the current globailized era as active migrants. Silvia Pellicer-Ortín and Julia Kuznetski have brought together a collection of essays from scholars in diaspora, migration and gender studies to take a look at the female experince of migration and globalization by covering topics such as vulnerability, empowerment, trauma, identity, memory, violence and gender contruction, which will continue to shape contemporary literature and the culture at large. Read more