Practicing transnational feminist recovery today

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Jessica Berman is Professor of English and Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Cambridge 2001) and Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism (Columbia 2011), co-editor (with Jane Goldman) of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds, editor of A Companion to Virginia Woolf (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) and editor of the annotated edition of Iqbalunnisa Hussain’s Purdah and Polygamy (Oxford, forthcoming, 2017). Berman is a co-editor of Futures of Comparative Literature, the American Comparative Literature Association’s decennial Report on the State of the Discipline (Routledge, 2017) and also co-edits, with Paul Saint-Amour, the Modernist Latitudes book series at Columbia University Press. In 2016-17, she served as president of the Modernist Studies Association.

Notes

1. See below for a discussion of gynocritics.

2. Chakravorty, Provincializing Europe.

3. Spivak, Death of a Discipline.

4. Humm, Practising Feminist Criticism, xii, (emphasis in original).

5. Showalter, “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness,” 530, (emphasis in original).

6. Showalter, A Literature of Their Own. See also work by Patricia Meyers Spacks, Nina Baym, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gubar.

7. Flint, “Revisiting a Literature of One’s Own,” 289–96.

8. Showalter, “Feminist,” 541.

9. See Marcus, Art and Anger, Susan Stanford Friedman, Mappings, among many other examples.

10. See, for example, Benstock, “Expatriate Sapphic Modernism” and Collecott, H.D. and Sapphic Modernism. Later work by Carlston, Thinking Fascism; Doan, Fashioning Sapphism; and Garrity, “Found and Lost.”

11. See Emery, Jean Rhys at “World’s End”.

12. Spivak, “Three Women’s Texts,” 243.

13. Rainey and Van Hallberg, “Editorial/Introduction,” 1.

14. Fernald, “Women’s Fiction,” 229.

15. Np. Full disclosure: this issue also contains my review of Kelly Cannon’s Henry James and Masculinity.

16. See the website of the Modernist Studies Association, https://msa.press.jhu.edu/about/index.html.

17. Mao and Walkowitz, “New Modernist Studies,” 738.

18. Fernald, “Women’s Fiction, New Modernist Studies,” 230.

19. Ibid., 744.

20. Sarker, “On Remaining Minor in Modernisms,” 10.

21. Garrity, “Found and Lost,” 806, 808.

22. See Seshagiri, “Mind the Gap!” Also, Linett, Companion to Modernist Women Writers and Utell, Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing.

23. Green, “Recovering Feminist Criticism,” 53–60.

24. Claire Battershill, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley, Michael Widner, and Nicola Wilson. See http://www.modernistarchives.com/content/about-the-project.

25. Winkiel, Laura. “Gendered Transnationalism in ‘The New Modernist Studies’,” 38–44.

26. The Future of Women, 38–44.

27. Sarker, “On Remaining Minor in Modernisms,” 10.

28. My discussion of this novel draws on my introduction to the OUP reprint edition.

29. That is, those often named as the main writers of pre-independence Indian fiction in English, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, and Raja Rao. My work on Hussain has sought, in part, to insert women writers into the literary history of the period. See Berman, “Neither Mirror Nor Mimic.”

30. See Reddy, “Foreword,” 2.

31. K. R. Srinivasa Iyangar’s classic book on Indian writing in English remarks, “it is only after the second world war that women of quality have begun enriching Indian fiction in English.” Still, Iyangar praises Purdah and Polygamy as having “tried with commendable success to present the currents and cross-currents in a typical Muslim family” (438). In 1974 Meenakshi Mukherjee also makes fleeting reference to Hussain (II).

32. de Souza, Women’s Voices and Purdah: An Anthology.

33. See Hubel, “The Missing Muslim Woman,” 141–51; Malak, Muslim Narratives; and Anjaria, A History of the Indian Novel.

34. Hussain, Purdah and Polygamy, 90.

35. See Berman, “Is the Trans,” 217–44.

36. Stryker, “(De)Subugated Knowledges,” 3.

37. Stryker, “De/Colonizing Transgender Studies,” 289.

38. Stryker, Currah, and Moore, “Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender?” 12.

39. On immigrant South Asian women in Britain in the early twentieth century, see Boehmer, Indian Arrivals.