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Resident Alien - Wolff, Janet - Yale University Press
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June 1995
168 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
15 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300062403
ISBN-10: 0300062400
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Cloth: $50.00 tx
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Resident AlienFeminist Cultural Criticism
In this fascinating book of critical writings, Janet Wolff examines issues of exile, memoir, and movement from the perspective of the female stranger. Wolff, born in Great Britain but now living and working in the United States, discusses the positive consequences of women's travel; the use of dance (another form of mobility) as an image of liberation; whether exile or distance provides a better vantage point for cultural criticism than centrality and stability; the place of personal memoir in academic writing; and much more. Illuminating a wide range of cultural phenomena—from opera, rock 'n' roll, and a Schubert quartet to feminist literary criticism, Gwen John's interiors, and Victorian lady travelers—Wolff's view is intelligent, eye-opening, and always engaging.
Janet Wolff is professor of art history and of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art and Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture.
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