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Loving against the Odds

Women’s Writing in English in a European Context

by Elizabeth Russell (Volume editor)
©2007 Conference proceedings 221 Pages
Series: European Connections, Volume 22

Summary

The essays collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, in 2002. They highlight the existence of a European network of women’s writing which became a valuable source of consciousness-raising, not only for European women writers, but also for their readers. The main theme running through the essays is love: women loving against the odds and transcending all kinds of obstacles. Does love speak a common language or is it inevitably linked to social mores and individual experience? Does desire work in the same way? Do love and desire have the power to subvert dichotomous thinking and motivate real change? The texts studied in this volume are both fictional and factual, from plays and novels to diaries, letters and drama performances. The countries the essays travel through, and the languages they encounter, all contribute to forming a magic web of connections, solidarities and ideas that truly cross boundaries.

Details

Pages
221
Publication Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039107322
Language
English
Keywords
Englisch Liebe (Motiv) Geschichte Kongress Women's network Diary Letter Connection Solidarity Frauenliteratur Loving Tarragona (2002)
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2006. 221 pp.

Biographical notes

Elizabeth Russell (Volume editor)

The Editor: Elizabeth Russell has been teaching literature and women’s studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, since 1982. She has published widely on feminism and literature, especially in the area of cross-cultural studies, utopia and dystopia. She is a member of a research project on utopian and dystopian fiction within T-CLAA (Cultural Transformations in English and German Studies).

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