... . ann ducille The Short Happy Life of Black Feminist Theory Feminist literary critics are not respon- Ernest Hemingway, who wrote so com- sible for the view that Ernest Heming- pellingly about what it was to be a white way’s work...

... “the carefully policed precincts of the academy” deemed taboo or critically unworthy. And underpinning all her bad objects (universalism, essentialism, feminism, and so on) was her mourning for the literary, a sense that her work, and feminist theory more generally, had broken off from the textual readings...

..., the deconstructionist definition of a woman reading (as a woman reading as a woman simply opens a space for male feminism while simultaneously foreclosing the question of real, material female readers: "a genuinely feminist literary criticism might wish to repudiate the hypothesis of a woman reader and instead promote...

... and, indeed, institutional memory so many decades removed. Gallop’s essay is part of a book, Around 1981 , that does close, and what she calls symptomatic, readings of a number of anthologies of feminist literary criticism and theory published between 1972 and 1987. Through this detailed attention...

... of rape), I want to resist (or at least pause to mark) the temptation to it. If the prime way in which feminist literary critics respond to adjudicative criticism is by proving not that rape did not happen but that it did, then we still allow readings that center male experience to set the terms...

... and sex with silence, secrecy, and a partially self-chosen invisibility. Black feminist theorists, historians, literary critics, sociologists, lawyers, and cultural critics have drawn upon a specific historical narrative which purportedly describes the factors that have produced and maintained perceptions...

... shaped both the stories feminist critics tell of women's literary traditions and feminism's conceptualization of its own forms of narrative. To tell my story as the story of my feminism is simultaneously to tell the story of many contemporary U.S. feminisms, at least since the late sixties, and despite...

... and humanism that remain securely inscribed within patriarchal ideology (4–7). Her conclusion about American feminist literary critics such as Elaine Showalter, Kate Millet, Myra Jehlen, Susan Gubar, Sandra Gilbert, Annette Kolodny...

... men of preempting the universal, black feminists of the eighties accused white feminists of preempting feminism. Throughout the eighties, black feminist literary critics and theoreticians as different as bell hooks, Barbara Christian, and Hazel Carby denounced white feminists for presuming to speak...

..., begins by looking back to the years before the advent of feminist literary criticism. She writes that as a young professor in 1969, living in a house once owned by Harriet Beecher Stowe's half-sister meant nothing to her, for "[i]t was several years before [Kate] Chopin's The Awakening and [Charlotte...

... Library Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts Collection, U of California , Berkeley, Berkeley, CA . Christian Barbara . “ Being ‘the Subjected Subject of Discourse’ .” New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985–2000 173 – 81 . Christian Barbara . Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives...

... and Women's Studies at Brown University. She is coeditor of "Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism" (forthcoming from Routledge) and is writing a book on the ideologies of gender in Shakespeare's Roman works. Notes In post-revolutionary America, the Roman exemplar of the mother devoting...

... theory, is the source of true knowledge" [8 links this second branch of feminist (literary) criticism to radical-feminist ideology. Its standard-bearers are Americans, Showalter's gynocritics and the "woman-centred criticism" of Gilbert and Gubar, whose reliance on the concept of authorship as a key...

... (the temporality characteristically assigned to subjectivity in postmodern theory)—bring us face to face with a historically specifi c crux in feminist literary criticism with particular pertinence to academic readings of works...

.... The earliest and most fundamental dogmas of feminism and "feminist" literary criticism - the notion that women are made and not born women, the notion that the universal point ofview is a man's/masculine point of view - were already familiar to those of us who had read and pondered Simone de Beauvoir's two...

... radically, as their predecessors in recognizing and resisting gender subordination” (465). Although many critics have assessed archival influences on Zong! , few have remarked on Zong! as a challenge to literary and theological canons. Even fewer have read Zong! as a radical feminist challenge...

... of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women as well as a Norton reader titled Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism . Gubar has also published Rooms of Our Own (University of Illinois Press, 2006), Poetry after Auschwitz (University of Illinois Press, 2003), Racechanges (Oxford University Press...

..., Lee. “`Homographesis.'” Literary Theory: An Anthology . Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998 . 731 -44. Elam, Diane. “Feminist Theory and Criticism: Poststructuralist Feminisms.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden et al. 2005. http...

.../Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory . London : Methuen , 1985 . Montrelay Michèle . “ Inquiry into Femininity .” Trans. Adams Parveen , m/f 1 ( 1978 ): 83 - 101 . Norton Anne . “ Response to Henry S. Kariel .” Political Theory 18 ( 1990 ): 273 - 79...

...: Harvest, 1929 . ———. Principles of Literary Criticism . New York: Harvest, 1925 . Tate, Claudia. Review of The Feminist Difference. African American Review 34.1 (Spring 2000 ): 159 -62. samuel solomon is a p h d candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern...