Transcultural Encounters Amongst Women

Traditionally women have found recourse in artistic means to interrogate change and upheaval. This volume explores the experiences of women from Spain, Portugal and Latin America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who themselves have crossed cultural boundaries or have described this experience in their literature and film. Areas investigated in this collection of essays include the experience of the exiled or the immigrant and their personal or collective response to displacement and adaptation; the transcultural potential of cyberspace for women, how patterns and styles of the fashion industry have crossed borders; how women have crossed canonical cultural boundaries in search of identity and meaning; and, how global cultural influences have manifested in Hispanic and Lusophone cultural practices and production by or about women, and the challenging question of whether canine writing can be considered a branch of feminist theory. Common to most of the essays are the central issues of identity, values, conflict and interconnectedness and an analysis of the patterns that result from the transcultural encounter of these aspects.

ISBN 1443820733   DEWEY 860.99287098 ISBN13 9781443820738 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC22 Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing   Pages 225 Imprint Cambridge Scholars Publishing   Published in Newcastle upon Tyne Format Hardback   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Publication date 01 Jul 2010

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