{"title":"“If You Don’t Get Caught”: Islands, Isolation, and Entrapment in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Poetry","authors":"Peter Mackay","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpaa022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay explores the trope of the island in recent Scottish poetry and in particular the tendency to treat poems as islands and vice versa. With a particular focus on the work of Meg Bateman, Jen Hadfield, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, and Liz Lochhead, the essay discusses ideas of entrapment, freedom, and isolation, to suggest that alongside the Utopian imaginings of islands, there is also the possibility of them becoming, like St Kilda for Lady Grange, constrictive prison cells.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"258-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48191431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives of Displacement: On Embodied Experience of Migration in Ulitskaya, Lindén, and Palei","authors":"M. Sorvari","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAB002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAB002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay discusses representations of migrant experiences of displacement by Russian women writers Liudmila Ulitskaya, Zinaida Lindén, and Marina Palei. The theoretical approach is guided by feminist geography and narrative studies, with attention to the conceptualization of space and place through embodied everyday experiences. The authors represent different writerly positions with which today’s Russophone writers engage, including multilingual and multilocal trends in and outside post-Soviet Russia. Although Lindén and Palei reside outside and Ulitskaya in Russia, their texts address (post-)Soviet migration and displacement, bringing critical perspectives both to their new home countries and to their homeland, Russia. In each text literary figures question and/or oppose the colonizing histories of their homeland and rewrite their personal stories in the form of narratives of displacement.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"350-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CWW/VPAB002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45024985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why I Choose Poetry (What’s Nation Got to Do with It? What’s Gender Got to Do with It?): A Collective Poetry-Essay by 21 Poets Encountered in Scotland (2016–19)","authors":"J. Goldman","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAA026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAA026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"276-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CWW/VPAA026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46085824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Just a Couple of Queer Fish”: The Queer Possibilities of Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle","authors":"Josette Lorig","doi":"10.1093/CWW/VPAB001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CWW/VPAB001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) is a foundational work of lesbian literature and has been characterized as a queer text. This essay begins with resistance to reading the novel as a wholly celebratory queer text because of how it positions a form of essentialized lesbianism against queer sexualities that are coded as deviant and abnormal. Nonetheless, Rubyfruit Jungle brims with queer narratives, queer scenes, and queer characters. In the essay’s second half, I draw on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s model of reparative reading to engage with potential queer readings the novel affords. I show how readers can recuperate the queer sexualities the novel documents in ways that the novel – with its specific historical and political positionality – did not or could not account for.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"315-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/CWW/VPAB001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61034497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Daughterlands”: Personal and Political Mappings in Scottish Women’s Poetry","authors":"G. Norquay","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpaa024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa024","url":null,"abstract":"Scottish women’s poetry in recent years has evinced an interest in mapping daughterhood, frequently through linguistic negatives that challenge binary thinking. This essay argues that such “daughterlands” offer an imaginative alternative to the more familiar “motherland”: encompassing past, present, and future and positioning women in multiple roles, they have played a transformative role in the poetic imagining of “Scotland” in the new millennium. The essay considers the deployment of daughterly spaces by influential writers such as Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie and then traces more recent instantiations by a younger generation of poets such as Claire Askew, Theresa Munoz, and Em Strang. In conclusion, it demonstrates the experiential and metaphoric potential of daughterhood for shaping broad political thinking in an explicitly public poem by Kay.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"181-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cww/vpaa024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42289886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late Negotiations: Ecopoetry and Kathleen Jamie","authors":"A. Gillis","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpaa023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay explores Kathleen Jamie’s ecopoetry, expanding upon previous discussions of her work in this context. Through close readings of key poems, a broader exploration of lyric poetry and ecopoetics is developed. The opening section discusses current debates. While there is agreement with a critical consensus that our environmental catastrophe necessitates new ways of thinking, it is queried whether this, regarding lyric poetry, necessitates rejection of all convention and previous approaches. The main section of the essay then reexamines the work of Jamie, a well-known ecopoet, to scrutinize ways in which an emphasis on close reading and attention to matters of form might allow for a richer understanding than is allowed for in current ecocritical debates.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cww/vpaa023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43130517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ordinary Affects and Spectrality in Three Works: Carole Giangrande’s Midsummer, Brenda Missen’s Tell Anna She’s Safe, and Andrea Thompson’s Over Our Heads","authors":"Silvia Caporale-Bizzini","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpaa016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa016","url":null,"abstract":"This work was supported by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2015-63895-C2-1-R).","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"51-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cww/vpaa016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45679840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions","authors":"Margaret E. Mitchell","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpaa004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"147-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cww/vpaa004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42778359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Effective to the Affective: Postmemory in Emma Donoghue’s The Sealed Letter","authors":"Natasha Alden","doi":"10.1093/cww/vpaa017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article has a dual focus. It demonstrates the recent repoliticization of Linda Hutcheon’s category of historiographic metafiction through the extension of Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory to lesbian novelists, arguing that this theoretical framework offers a lens through which we can understand some recent trends in lesbian historical fiction. Focusing on the novelist and critic Emma Donoghue’s 2008 novel The Sealed Letter, it also argues that this text’s evocation of an imagined lesbian past, and its use of metafictional techniques, are illuminated by reading it as a highly political engagement with lesbian postmemory.","PeriodicalId":41852,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Womens Writing","volume":"14 1","pages":"107-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/cww/vpaa017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45941978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}