FEMINIST LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO SPACE

Book Details:

• ISBN: 9789819604142

• Author: Java Singh

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Binding: Hardback

• Number of Pages: 311

• Publication Year: 2025

• Sale Territory: India Only

About the Book
Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism explores interdisciplinary connections across Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Psychology, and feminist literary criticism to create a theoretical framework for spatial criticism. Utilizing the spatial gynocritics framework, the book analyzes texts from five different genres – short stories, novels, films, cartoons, and OTT series, all created by women. These creators represent a transnational collective from diverse regions including India, Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, and the USA, united by their concerns around gender, environment, technology, and social hierarchies.

The book focuses on the treatment of space, demonstrating that spatial logic and grammar are vital to feminist praxis. It explores how women creators destabilize, decenter, and deconstruct the social structures centered around power and control. By offering fresh analytic tools, this book contributes to the fields of literary theory, comparative cultural studies, gender studies, and feminist criticism. It is a must-read for students and faculty in these disciplines, providing new perspectives on texts.

Contents

• Interdisciplinary Vectors

• The Anthropological Vector

• The Geographic Vector

• The Psychological Vector

• The Literary Vector

• The Resultant Vector: A Model for Spatial Gynocritics

• Interstitial Spatial Views

• Cristina Peri Rossi’s Postmodernist Short Story

• Manjula Padmanabhan’s Science Fiction Novel

• Lucrecia Martel’s Transnational Cinema

• Sumukhi Suresh’s Satirical Comedy

• Carol Lay’s Comics

About the Author / Editor
Java Singh holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from JNU, New Delhi, and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. She was awarded the Rafael Iruzubieta prize for being the top student in her MA (Spanish) class at JNU. She has published several works, including Post-Humanist Nomadisms in Non-Oedipal Spatiality (2022) and Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective (2020). Singh has also won awards for her academic papers and creative writing.