First published in 1996. The present volume, Homemaking: Women Writers and the Politics and Poetics of Home, enters the critical discourse on gender by way of two of its most pressing issues: the politics of women's locations at the end of the twentieth century, and the division ofexperience into public and private. That the emergence of systematicfeminist thought in the west coincided with the invention of "privatelife" should not surprise us. Feminist thinkers from Mary Wollstonecrofton were quick to realize that the designation of the public and theprivate, male and female, was key to the subordination of women.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2021

ISBN

9781000526448

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Perhaps the World Ends Here
2 Homeric Resonances: Longing and Belonging in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams
3 Writing Home: The Bible and Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Cafe
4 Beyond Silence
5 My Self, My Body, My World: Homemaking in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer
6 Home-Breaking and Making in the Novels of Elizabeth Jolley
7 Ironing Their Clothes
8 The Dream Detectivés
9 Penetrating Privacy: Confessional Poetry and the Surveillance Society
10 Remembering China in Wild Swans and Life and Death in Shanghai
11 Keeping House: A Meditation on the Possibilities of the Essay
12 Unfamiliar Ties: Lesbian Constructions of Home and Family in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories
13 Harmony and Resistance in L’Amour, la fantasia’s Algerian Women’s Communities
14 Spices
15 Relocating Home and Identity in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
16 Wild Lessons: Native Ecological Wisdom in Ruby Slipperjack’s Fiction
17 Nature, Spirituality, and Homemaking in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Cross Creek
18 Guest to New York City
19 Jewish Women in the Diaspora
20 Home
21 Untitled Letter
22 Yes, Something Did Happen in My Childhood
23 Imagined Communities in the Novels of Michelle Cliff
24 Refusing the Poisoned Chalice: The Sexual Politics of Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan
25 Zehra Çirak: Foreign Wings on Familiar Shoulders
26 Helena María Viramontes’ Homing Devices in Under the Feet Jesus
27 How We Did It from Scenes from a Childhood
Notes on the Contributors