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

Silvia Pellicer-Ort�n, Julia Kuznetski

ISBN 10: 1138321990 / ISBN 13: 9781138321991

Published by Routledge 2018-07-11, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women on the Move: Body, Memory and Femininity in Present-Day Transnational Diasporic Writing (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)
• Publisher: Routledge 2018-07-11
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138321990
• ISBN 13: 9781138321991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Silvia Pellicer-Ortín is a Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Julia Kuznetski is Associate Professor of British Literature and curator of Liberal Arts in Humanities programme at Tallinn University, Estonia.