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Author |
: Ruth Behar |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2014-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807070468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807070467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Translated Woman by : Ruth Behar
Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza's extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind together anthropologists and their "subjects."
Author |
: Angèle Rawiri |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2014-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813936048 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813936047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fury and Cries of Women by : Angèle Rawiri
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them. Emilienne’s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. She completes her university studies in Paris; marries a man from another ethnic group; becomes a leader in women’s liberation; enjoys professional success, even earning more than her husband; and eventually takes a female lover. Yet still she remains unsatisfied. Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover. The tragic death of her only child—her daughter Rékia—accentuates Emilienne’s anguish, all the more so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband’s taking a second wife. In her forceful portrayal of one woman’s life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women’s writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers.
Author |
: Luise von Flotow |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2016-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317229872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317229878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Translating Women by : Luise von Flotow
This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have assembled work from four continents and included articles from Morocco, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia, Columbia and beyond. Thirteen different chapters explore questions around women's roles in translation: as authors, or translators, or theoreticians. In doing so, they open new territories for studies in the area of 'gender and translation' and stimulate academic work on questions in this field around the world. The articles examine the impact of 'Western' feminism when translated to other cultures; they describe translation projects devised to import and make meaningful feminist texts from other places; they engage with the politics of publishing translations by women authors in other cultures, and the role of women translators play in developing new ideas. The diverse approaches to questions around women and translation developed in this collection speak to the volume of unexplored material that has yet to be addressed in this field.
Author |
: Norika Mizuta Lippit |
Publisher |
: M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 1991-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0765639971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780765639974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japanese Women Writers by : Norika Mizuta Lippit
Revised and expanded edition of Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden's Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers [1982]
Author |
: Tove Jansson |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2014-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590177662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590177665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Woman Who Borrowed Memories by : Tove Jansson
An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in “The Summer Child” an unlovable boy is marooned along with his lively host family, in “The Cartoonist” an artist takes over a comic strip that has run for decades, and in “The Doll’s House” a man’s hobby threatens to overwhelm his life. Others explore unexpected territory: “Shopping” has a post-apocalyptic setting, “The Locomotive” centers on a railway-obsessed loner with murderous fantasies, and “The Woman Who Borrowed Memories” presents a case of disturbing transference. Unsentimental, yet always humane, Jansson’s stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a singular figure in world literature.
Author |
: Gioconda Belli |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2005-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299206833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299206831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Inhabited Woman by : Gioconda Belli
Lavinia is The Inhabited Woman: accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being, then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent dictator and—through the power of love—finds the courage to act. The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
Author |
: Rebecca L. Copeland |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0824829581 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824829582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Woman Critiqued by : Rebecca L. Copeland
'Women Critiqued' offers English-language readers access to some of the salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other.
Author |
: Scholastique Mukasonga |
Publisher |
: Archipelago |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2018-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781939810052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1939810051 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Barefoot Woman by : Scholastique Mukasonga
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice in a haunting work of art.
Author |
: Jean Kwok |
Publisher |
: Riverhead Books (Hardcover) |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1594487561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781594487569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Girl in Translation by : Jean Kwok
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty. A first novel.
Author |
: Perumal Murugan |
Publisher |
: Grove Press |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2018-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802146731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802146732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Part Woman by : Perumal Murugan
The “intimate and affecting” novel of an Indian couple’s quest for a child that sparked national conversations about caste and female empowerment (Laila Lalami, New York Times Book Review). Set in South India during the British colonial period, One Part Woman tells the story of Kali and Ponna, a married couple unable to conceive. The predicament is of major concern for their families—and the crowing amusement of Kali’s male friends. From making offerings at different temples to circumambulating a mountain supposed to cure barren women, Kali and Ponna try everything to solve the problem. But a more radical plan is required. The annual chariot festival, a celebration of the god Maadhorubaagan, who is part male and part female, may provide the answer. On the eighteenth night of the festival, the rules of marriage are relaxed, and consensual sex between unmarried men and women is overlooked, for all men are considered gods. The festival may be the solution to Kali and Ponna’s problem, but it soon threatens to drive the couple apart as much as to bring them together. Wryly amusing and deeply poignant, One Part Woman is a powerful exploration of a loving marriage strained by the expectations of others, and an attack on the rigid rules of caste and tradition that continue to constrict opportunity and happiness. Longlisted for the National Book Award