Feminism as World Literature

Robin Truth Goodman is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Her published works include Gender Commodity: Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security (Bloomsbury, 2022), Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory (2019), Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (2018), Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat (2016), and Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (2015).

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Is a Feminist World Literature Possible?
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA
Part I Genres
1. “There Are in Persia Many Subjects Not Accessible to Female Inquiry”: Eurocentric and Cross-Cultural Feminist Nomadism in Lady Mary Sheil’s Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia (1856)
Marie Ostby, Connecticut College, USA
2. Changing the World of Feminist Demodystopias
Caren Irr, Brandeis University, USA
3. The Speculative Mode in Feminist World Literature
Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia, USA
4. Poet/Guerreras: Hip-Hop and World Literature
Debra A. Castillo, Cornell University, USA
5. Surface Matters: Female Allegories and the Gendering of Continents from Waldseemüller to Ortelius
Katharina N. Piechocki, Harvard University, USA
Part II Strategies
6. Bonds of Labor: Mahasweta Devi, Feminism, Leninism
Keya Ganguly, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
7. The Worlds That Women Collect
Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University, USA
8. Practicing Transnational Feminist Recovery Today
Jessica Berman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
9. Woman as Anti-Suicide Bomb: Women Trapped between Past and Future
Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10. Translating Hidden Economies: Toward a Decolonial-Feminist Worlding of Literature
Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
11. The Elusive Postcolonial: Women Writers in/and the African Diaspora
Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University, USA
Part III Themes
12. Intertwining Feminisms, Environmentalisms, and World Literature in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Karen Thornber, Harvard University, USA
13. Troubling the Human, Worlding Gender in Maryse Condé’s The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana
Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA
14. Dissident Feminist Subjects and Spaces in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Sarah Afzal, Florida State University, USA
15. Maghrebi Women’s Literature and Film: The "Ecritures féminines" of Unsubmissive Voices
Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland, USA
16. Toward a New Theory of Feminist World Literature, in Film
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA
17. Passivity and Nomadism in the Literature of Luisa Valenzuela
Sofia Iaffa, Stockholm University, Sweden
Notes on Contributors
Index