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Writing otherwise

Writing otherwise

Experiments in cultural criticism

Edited by

Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff

Manchester University Press
Manchester and New York

Distributed in the United States exclusively
by Palgrave Macmillan

Copyright Manchester University Press 2013

While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher.

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First published 2013

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Margaret Beetham retired in 2005 from Manchester Metropolitan University where she had taught for many years, been course leader for the MA in womens studies, and held the position of reader in the Department of English. She is now an honorary research fellow in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Salford University. Her research interests are in histories of womens popular reading, recipe books, Lancashire dialect writing, and feminist criticism and teaching. Publications include: A Magazine of her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Womans Magazine 18001914 (1996), The Victorian Womans Magazine: AnAnthology, with Kay Boardman (2001), and several edited volumes, together with articles and chapters in English, Italian and German publications. She was an associate editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism (2009). She has just completed a book-length work of memoir and reflection entitled Home is Where.

Mary Cappello has been interested for over a decade in testing the boundaries of scholarly and poetic practice, bringing incompatible knowledges into the same space and creating forms of disruptive beauty. Her numerous essays and experimental prose appear in such venues as The Georgia Review, Salmagundi and Cabinet Magazine, and she is the author of four books of literary non-fiction, including Called Back (2009), which won a Foreword Book of the Year Award, and Independent Publishers Prize, and Awkward: A Detour (2007), a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A recipient of the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative, the Dorothea Lange Paul Taylor Prize from Duke Universitys Center for Documentary Studies, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Cappello is a former Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow) and currently professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island.

Brenda Cooper is an emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town, where she was the director of the Centre for African Studies. In 2009 she moved to Salford and is now an honorary research associate at the University of Manchester. She also runs an academic writing mentoring consultancy called Burnish. She has published four academic books To Lay These Secrets Open (1992); Magical Realism in West African Fiction (1998); Weary Sons of Conrad (2002); and A New Generation of African Writers (2008) and many journal articles and book chapters on African and diasporic fiction and literary theory. She is currently writing a cross-genre book that includes art, literature and her own life story, entitled Floating in an Anti-bubble from South Africa to Salford.

Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, as well as professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the 2013 president of the Modern Language Association of America. Her most recent publications are The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012) and, as co-author with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010). Other works include Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (1997), The Mother/Daughter Plot (1989), and the (co-)edited volumes Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (2011), The Familial Gaze (1999) and Conflicts in Feminism (1991).

Judy Kendall is a senior lecturer at Salford University where she has led the BA and MA programmes in English and creative writing. An award-winning poet-academic, she has produced three books on Edward Thomas and three collections of her own poetry. She also writes plays and short fiction, and she works as a collaborative translator in several languages. She was guest editor of the 2013 European Journal of English Studies (17.1) on visual text, and lectures on visual text at undergraduate and graduate level at Salford. As well as publishing several articles on the subject, she has worked creatively on projects in this area, including exploratory films, visual translations and interactive and kinetic digital poetry.

Lynne Pearce is professor of literary theory and womens writing at Lancaster University. Her books include: Woman/Image/Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art & Literature (1991); Reading Dialogics (1994); Feminism and the Politics of Reading (1997); Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home & Belonging (as editor) (2000); The Rhetorics of Feminism (2004); Romance Writing (2007). From 2006 to 2010 she was principal investigator for the AHRC-funded project, Moving Manchester: how the experience of migration has informed writing in Greater Manchester from 1960 to the present, culminating in the publication (by Manchester University Press in 2013) of Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture. She is now working on a new book on driving, provisionally entitled Driving: A Journey Through Twentieth-Century Consciousness, and her previous work on this topic includes Driving north / driving south (Devolving Identities, 2000) and Automobility in Manchester fiction (Mobilities, 7:1, 2012).

Monica B. Pearl is a lecturer in twentieth-century American literature at the University of Manchester. Her work addresses the construction of subjectivity in cultural texts, with recent focus on AIDS and its written and visual representation. She is the author of

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