Cautiously Hopeful
Cautiously Hopeful If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. In Cautiously Hopeful Marie Carri re brings together…
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Cautiously Hopeful
If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism that defines and embraces that disorder. In Cautiously Hopeful Marie Carri re brings together seemingly disparate writing by Anglo-Canadian, Indigenous, and Qu b cois women authors under the banner of metafeminism. As a carefully devised reading practice, metafeminism understands contemporary feminist literature and theory as both recalling and extending the tropes and politics of the past.
Familiarizing readers with major streams of feminist thought, including intersectionality, affect theory, and care ethics, Carri re shows how literary works by such authors as Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Naomi Fontaine, Larissa Lai, Tracey Lindberg, and Rachel Zolf, among others, tackle the entanglement of gender with race, settler-invader colonialism, heteronormativity, positionality, language, and the posthuman