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Women’s Identities and Bodies in Colonial and Postcolonial History and Literature
Editor: Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz
Date Of Publication: Mar 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3627-2
Isbn: 1-4438-3627-3
Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a commitment on the part of women writers and scholars to revise and rewrite the history and culture of colonial and post-colonial women. This collection intends to enter a forum of discussion in which the colonial past serves as a point of reference for the analysis of contemporary issues. This volume will examine topics of women’s identities and bodies through literary representations and historical accounts. In other words, the aim is to reconstruct women’s identities through the representations of their bodies in literature and to analyse women’s bodies historically as sites of abuse, discrimination and violence on the one hand, and of knowledge and cultural production on the other. The chapters of this book will contribute to the formation of a new representation of women through history and literature which fights traditional stereotypes in relation to their bodies and identities. Focusing on female bodies as maternal bodies, as repositories of history and memory, as sexual bodies, as healing bodies, as performative of gender, as black bodies, as migrant and hybrid bodies, as the objects of regulation and control, and as victims of sexual exploitation and murder, the different articles contained in this book will examine issues of space, power/knowledge relations, discrimination, the production of knowledge, gender and boundaries to produce new identities for women which contest and respond to the traditional ones. The volume is addressed to a wide readership, both scholars and those interested in investigating the dynamics of the female body, and the social and cultural conceptualizations of our multicultural and multiethnic contemporary societies in relation to it, without forgetting the historical and colonial roots of these new representations.
Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (MA, University of Southampton; PhD, University of Granada) is a Lecturer in Social History and Cultural Studies at the University of Málaga, Spain. She specialises in the social and cultural history of deviant women and children in Victorian England, although her research interests have since expanded to contemporary gender and sexual identity issues. She was a Research Visitor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England Library in London in the summer of 2008. Her publications include several chapters of books and articles in journals, and the co-edited volumes Identity, Migration and Women’s Bodies as Sites of Knowledge and Transgression (KRK Editions, 2009), and Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects: Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). She is also the author of an entry for the Encyclopaedia of Global Human Migration entitled “Trafficking, Sex-work and Migration” (Wiley Blackwell, 2012).
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