Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-409).
Contents
The letter as cutting edge -- Finding feminist readings: Dante-Yeats -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse -- Sex and history in The prelude (1805): books nine to thirteen -- Feminism and critical theory -- Reading the world: literary studies in the eighties -- Explanation and culture: marginalia -- The politics of interpretations -- French feminism in an international frame -- Scattered speculations on the question of value -- "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi -- Subaltern studies: deconstructing historiography -- "Breast-giver" by Mahasweta Devi -- A literary representation of the subaltern: a woman's text from the Third World.