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Feminist Writing and the Question of Readership 1

Feminist Writing and the Question of Readership 1 Comparative Critical Studies 6, 2, pp. 221–232 DOI: 10.3366/E1744185409000718 © BCLA 2009 In the ongoing debate about the direction, subject matter and readership of the work of women writers, the discriminatory approach to art on the basis of gender has in many contexts acted as an exclusionary, repressive strategy that seeks to devalue the art of women’s writing and its relevance to the socio-intellectual world of ideas. By focusing on women’s literary traditions, their contributions to literary forms and their reshaping of ‘masculine’ language, feminist critics have aimed to articulate a history of all those little and big rebellions which had marked the gender issue. They have also provided a much-needed spur to more focused studies leading to a whole new body of knowledge that has come into being since then. By and large, this criticism either questions male-constructed inherited myths and traditions or moves away from them in order to unveil hitherto unknown areas of experience. This turn has been especially true of women’s writing in India, where the narratives of the epics have been the subject of several feminist retellings and reinterpretations. India has a long indigenous tradition of feminist resistance carefully embedded in the behavioural http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Critical Studies Edinburgh University Press

Feminist Writing and the Question of Readership 1

Comparative Critical Studies , Volume 6 (2): 221 – Jun 1, 2009

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Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© British Comparative Literature Association 2009
Subject
Essays; Literary Studies
ISSN
1744-1854
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1750-0109
DOI
10.3366/E1744185409000718
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Comparative Critical Studies 6, 2, pp. 221–232 DOI: 10.3366/E1744185409000718 © BCLA 2009 In the ongoing debate about the direction, subject matter and readership of the work of women writers, the discriminatory approach to art on the basis of gender has in many contexts acted as an exclusionary, repressive strategy that seeks to devalue the art of women’s writing and its relevance to the socio-intellectual world of ideas. By focusing on women’s literary traditions, their contributions to literary forms and their reshaping of ‘masculine’ language, feminist critics have aimed to articulate a history of all those little and big rebellions which had marked the gender issue. They have also provided a much-needed spur to more focused studies leading to a whole new body of knowledge that has come into being since then. By and large, this criticism either questions male-constructed inherited myths and traditions or moves away from them in order to unveil hitherto unknown areas of experience. This turn has been especially true of women’s writing in India, where the narratives of the epics have been the subject of several feminist retellings and reinterpretations. India has a long indigenous tradition of feminist resistance carefully embedded in the behavioural

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Published: Jun 1, 2009

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