Description:
#MeToo and Modernism offers a blend of cultural, historical, literary, and pedagogical
responses applied to the themes behind today's ongoing #MeToo Movement. This volume is organized
into four sections: a three-part chronological response in which scholars analyze literary understandings of how ripples of the #MeToo Movement began to emerge in Modernist literature, followed by a pedagogical section on how to incorporate such teachings in university classrooms. Editors Robin E. Field and Jerrica Jordan foreword the collection with an introduction answering the question of why such a volume is necessary in today's educational landscape. The introduction summarizes the current scholarship regarding #MeToo and Modernism, while also uncovering the omissions, particularly in approaching nonbinary or queer writers, as well as writers of color, that still exist; as a response, many of these essays attempt to approach these gaps. Furthermore, the introduction shows how more traditional Modernist writers--including Woolf, Forster, Wells, and Joyce--served as forerunners of early glimmers of the #MeToo Movement in Modernist Literature.
Brief description: Robin E. Field is Professor of English at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She is co-editor of Transforming Diaspora: Communities beyond National Boundaries (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011) and has authored articles and book chapters on Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Ayad Akhtar. Her research interests include gender, trauma, contemporary literature, and postcolonial studies. She is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and teaching at King's College and the Managing Editor of the journal South Asian Review.
Review Quotes:
'This edited collection is a must-read for those working in modernist studies more broadly, as the contributors guide us through new frameworks for critically approaching established authors and texts. It is especially relevant to those working in women's studies, queer studies, and sexuality studies.'
Laura Hartmann-Villalta, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945