Infertilities : exploring fictions of barren bodies

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Label

Infertilities : exploring fictions of barren bodies

Title remainder

exploring fictions of barren bodies

Statement of responsibility

Robin Truth Goodman

Creator

• Goodman, Robin Truth, 1966-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Infertility, Female, in literature
• Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Spanish American fiction -- History and criticism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"In today's global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the pursuit of empire, the accumulation of goods, and the furtherance of power. It is this history that Robin Truth Goodman exposes in her analysis of literary and political representations of female infertility from the mid-nineteenth century to our day. Goodman takes Darwin's studies on sterility between species as her starting point, exploring evolutionary science as the intersection of a colonial worldview based on class struggle and the pathologizing of female identities that fall outside of reproductive normalcy. She then examines how Joseph Conrad constructs a vision of feminism as a product of miscegenation, how Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa deploy female figures of miscegenation to recast Latin American literature as "difference," and how ecological devastation in the Brazilian Amazon is envisioned through failures in Indian marriage. Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, Infertilities points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Cultural studies of the Americas, v. 4

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

863.009/353

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ7082.F35

LC item number

G63 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cultural studies of the Americas

Series volume

v. 4