Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms - by Jamil Khader (Paperback)

About the Book

This book proffers an original theory of postcolonial feminist writings, and bears witness to the radical possibility of the work of some prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers from Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

Book Synopsis

This book proffers an original theory of postcolonial feminist writings, and bears witness to the radical possibility of the work of some prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers from Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

Review Quotes

This is a hands-on, eloquent, and refreshingly honest kind of criticism, rooted in feminism while drawn to community organizing and its battle with the neoliberal "feminization of poverty." Unimpressed by the anodyne formulas of "cosmo-theory," Khader takes us through a series of superb close-readings from the intimacy of the domestic to the ex-timacy of the political, giving us along the way one of the best defenses anywhere of internationalism as an ethos, an aesthetic, and a politics. A new kind of theory and maybe (hopefully) its future.

This is a provocative work on a timely subject. In a series of trenchant analyses of Puerto Rican writers, as well as Dangarembga, Erdrich, and Tawil, the author makes the case for "extimate subjectivities" as a key to the interventions of postcolonial feminism. It is a fascinating account of radical possibility in contemporary postcolonial feminist writing.

About the Author

Jamil Khader is professor of English at Stetson University, where he teaches postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminism, and popular fiction. He is the co-editor, with Molly Rothenberg, of Zizek Now: Current Perspectives in Zizek Studies (Polity Press 2013). His articles appeared in Feminist Studies, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, College Literature, MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Ariel: Review of International English Literature, Children's Literature, The Journal of Homosexuality, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and other journals and collections.