This group seeks to promote and support female scholars of literature as experts in their fields and professionals in their own right. The group is a step toward building a database of scholars to be launched on a website in line with other “Women also Know …” sites. See us on Twitter @WeAlsoKnowLit
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Mulieris Litterarum”: Oral, Visual, and Written Narratives of Indigenous Elite Women. in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Women’s literary expression in Latin America started as a crossroads of rhetorical practices and textual devices that included the knowledge and transmission of oral traditions, visual iconic narratives, tangible systems of record keeping, and the incorporation of the alphabetic script. I propose to look at the written production of Indigenous w…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Sujeto colonial” [Colonial Subject] in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
This essay-entry reviews and reflects upon the term “sujeto colonial” as a key concept of Latin American literary and cultural studies. A review of its definitions within the context of Latin American studies of colonialism and coloniality allows to observe (a) the criticism paradigms within which “sujeto colonial” has been defined in the last…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
In the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]
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Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
It is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited A Welshman on the Water: The Portrayal of In-Betweener Identities in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872) in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Published during a time of rapid colonial expansion, Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s The Maid of Sker (1872) constitutes a conglomerate of fictional autobiography, historical and sensation novel. It takes the reader on a number of voyages to witness the most important British sea battles at the end of the eighteenth century. Considering the…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship: UVA, 2021 application cycle in the discussion
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies,…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Bicultural Geographies: Narrating Anglo-Welsh Identities in the Novels Of Allen Raine in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Written around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Allen Raine’s novels and short stories predominantly depict life in a fictionalised version of the coastal area of south Cardiganshire in an unspecified but clearly Victorian past. Raine’s characters are portrayed as geographically and socially mobile as they overcome the met…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female se…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Alfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Transatlantic Quechuañol: Reading Race through Colonial Translations in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Translation is often described with opposed terms like loyalty and betrayal, even though the work of translation defies such a description. New research in translation studies argues for the value of mistranslation and untranslatables, especially in recovering Indigenous knowledge production. This study joins these efforts by documenting how…[Read more]
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Kate Koppy deposited Book Proposal for The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
The Fairy Tale as Secular Scripture begins from the premise that fairy tales are a battleground in twenty-first century American culture. Hundreds of fairy tales enter the cultural space each year and are met with both acclaim and censure. Fairy tales are censured even as we consume them, but these cultural moments have been underexamined in…[Read more]
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Sheryl McDonald Werronen deposited An edition of Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda based on BL Add 24 969 in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Ambrósíus saga og Rósamunda is a post-medieval Icelandic romance which belongs to a group of Scandinavian narratives utilizing the pound of flesh motif. It survives in 19 paper manuscripts from the 18th and 19th centuries, and it has never before been edited. The aim of the present edition is of an introductory nature, primarily to make the sa…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Another welcome and please post announcements! in the discussion
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago
Dear All,
I started this group almost a year ago. We have 53 members and I hope more will join us. Please invite others whom you may know.
We have a few members who have deposited their work with the group when uploading to the CORE Repository. I hope more of you will do the same. Also if there are any announcements you have or dis…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
The belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives” (2018) in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
While Anton Chekhov’s influence on Katherine Mansfield is widely acknowledged, the two writers’ settler colonial aesthetics have not been brought into systematic comparison. Yet Chekhov’s chronicle of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East parallels in important ways Mansfield’s near-contemporaneous account of colonial life in New Zealand…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago
In recent years, Anne Askew has attained something of celebrity status among scholars of Tudor women’s writing and, more generally, of Tudor Reformation history. In the course of privileging Askew’s examinations above those of other female defendants (such as Elizabeth Young), scholars sometimes equate Askew’s rhetorical expertise with legal exper…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Welcome to Women also Know Literature in the discussion
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago
Welcome to Women also Know Literature. If you are not yet a member, we hope that you will join us!
We are a group of literature scholars inspired by the efforts of “Women Also Know History,” which has launched an impressive website dedicated to promoting and supporting the work of women historians. We hope to do the same for women scholars of…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar created the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months ago