Women's Friendship in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction
Bonding across Difference
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Beschreibung
This book argues that women writers of colour, specifically those situated within Anglophone diasporic contexts, have played a significant role in the rewriting and diversification of women’s relations in literature, mainly by dismantling the traditional view of women as kindred spirits and of women’s friendships as exclusively private bonds. Through an interdisciplinary framework that is based on philosophical, sociological, and literary criticism, the book explores how the selected contemporary novels complexify the representation of female bonds in literature by adding sociological vectors of difference related to the characters’ respective gender, racial, sexual, class, and national identities. Additionally, the book examines how these fictional bonds play a political role by creating a space that both motivates the characters’ civic agency and enables the authors to explore ethical human connections. All in all, this book addresses a central concern in contemporary society: how we form relationships with one another and how we might cultivate ethical connections that enhance both individual and collective well-being.
Teresa Martínez-Quiles teaches contemporary British literature at the University of Alicante, Spain. Her primary research focus has been in the field of postcolonial feminist studies, with an emphasis on Anglophone literature written by Black and Asian women authors.
This book argues that women writers of colour, specifically those situated within Anglophone diasporic contexts, have played a significant role in the rewriting and diversification of women’s relations in literature, mainly by dismantling the traditional view of women as kindred spirits and of women’s friendships as exclusively private bonds. Through an interdisciplinary framework that is based on philosophical, sociological, and literary criticism, the book explores how the selected contemporary novels complexify the representation of female bonds in literature by adding sociological vectors of difference related to the characters’ respective gender, racial, sexual, class, and national identities. Additionally, the book examines how these fictional bonds play a political role by creating a space that both motivates the characters’ civic agency and enables the authors to explore ethical human connections. All in all, this book addresses a central concern in contemporary society: how we form relationships with one another and how we might cultivate ethical connections that enhance both individual and collective well-being.
Advances research on female friendship, particularly representations of friendship written by women of colour Integrates literary, philosophical, psychological and sociological discourses Argues that writers of colour have helped to dismantle traditional views of women in their portrayals of friendship
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Teresa Martínez-Quiles
Themen in »Women's Friendship in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction«
Literature and Postcolonial Studies Literature, Gender and Sexuality Literature and Class Female Friendship Writers of Colour Literature and Race