Field, material, technique: On renewing postcolonial literary criticism

Etherington, Ben; Zimbler, Jarad

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“…The researcher in this context acts as a critical instrument because it is he who processes and analyzes the data based on the results of his interpretation. Therefore, it requires deep scientific competence and interpretation following a clear context (Etherington & Zimbler, 2014) for comprehensive research results. The approach used in the research uses hermeneutics and feminism.…”

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Law, Women, and Literary Studies: Understanding the Thought of Nawal El-Saadawi in Woman at Point Zero

Ahmadi

2021

LiNGUA J.

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Islamic feminist is currently being discussed, one of which is Nawal E-Saadawi. She is an Islamic feminist who is known for her view on fighting for the fate of women. It is reflected in his non-fiction and literary works. This study aims to explore the view of the feminist writer from Egypt, Nawal El-Saadawi, from a legal context. The research method used in this research is qualitative-interpretative using literary data sources written by Nawal El-Saadawi. The data source used is the novel Woman at Point Zero. The data collection technique was done by using a literature study. The data analysis technique was carried out in two stages: the textual and contextual levels. The result of the research showed that Nawal El-Saadawi's thoughts from her literary context that (1) the law is frightening and unfair in the view of women; (2) men acting on behalf of the law; and (3) women who violate the law.

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Law, Women, and Literary Studies: Understanding the Thought of Nawal El-Saadawi in Woman at Point Zero

Ahmadi

2021

LiNGUA J.

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“…Towards this end, in their opening article, Etherington and Zimbler (2014) work through critical categories that might assist the legibility of technical decisions made in particular works crafted in particular locations. They argue that the true character of any given literary practice can be grasped only in its "context of intelligibility", a notion they seek to elaborate by synthesizing literary field and literary material.…”

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Crafts of world literature: Field, material and translation

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Bower

2014

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Early in 2012 we called for papers that would acknowledge the challenges of thinking about craft and of seeing craft itself as a kind of thinking. These aims could be meaningfully pursued only if craft and technique were understood to be the fundamental grounds for critical interpretation rather than subsidiary concerns for cultural critique and "textual analysis". Such an understanding, we suggested, had been missing as much from recent conversations about world literature as from older conversations about Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures, and this to their detriment, since it is in craft that works are oriented towards and have knowledge of the world.The enthusiasm of the response confirmed that others in the field shared our misgivings about the eclipse of craft and technique, though it soon emerged that each participant understood the reasons and remedies for this eclipse somewhat differently. This was not wholly unexpected, since we had asked for a range of approaches: formalist, stylistic, narratological, but also sociological, book historical, bibliographic; and we had hoped for the kind of geographic range that was in the end represented: Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, the Middle East, China, Eastern Europe, Western Europe; ground which postcolonial criticism could hardly pretend to cover, even if we did choose to prioritize the context of decolonization in the call for papers. But over and beyond the divergence

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“…are made available across regions of literary production, materials emerges as a keyword (and here, I deliberately reference Raymond Williams's term) through which we might understand a 'work's context of intelligibility: that configuration of potentiality in a given moment and place that impels and shapes the work and makes possible its emergence into meaning'. 3 At a basic level, the concept of the material strikes me as a productive extension of Raymond Williams's formulation of culture as articulated across his body of work and most explicitly in The Long Revolution. 4 In this text, Williams introduces a number of concepts or ideas…”

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Materials, Structures and African Literary Criticism: A Response

Krishnan¹

2020

The Cambridge Quarterly

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The essays collected in this special issue, brought together under the title of 'The Materials of African Literature', position themselves as a collective effort to fill what they identify as a gap in current scholarly examinations of African literary writing, both as a body of work and as an institution (a term I use, following Peter D. McDdonald, 1 in both its meanings asto evoke the dual meanings of 'institute' as both a noun and a verb). Central to the claims underpinning these interventions is the belief that what we might broadly characterise as the 'materialist turn' in African literary studies has yet to fully realise a robust engagement with the text as an aesthetic artefact. Asha Rogers, drawing on the work of Gisèle Saprio, observes that literary criticism today remains divided between methods that can be broadly defined as either 'internal' (that is, concerned largely with the text through its internal structures and forms, preoccupied with close readings and literary analysis) or 'external' (focused more primarily on the text's social function, the triad of production, circulation and reception and the author's embeddedness within a larger sociality); for the authors of the pieces in this special issue, materialist criticism has for too long favoured the latter over the former, as evidenced, for instance, in recent scholarship which seeks to read the literary text through post-Marxist and dependency theories, spatial geographies and the constitution of space, book history and print cultures, economic and financial lenses and so on. Without denigrating the insights derived from these approaches, this special issue seeks to develop methods which might enable an engaged and invigorated reckoning with the text as a text by paying particular attention to its diverse 'materials'. Commented [r1]:Could this be clarified / simplified? 'institution' can't be a verb… Commented [JZ2]: Perhaps worth expanding the gloss? To indicate external analysis also concerned with author's sociality, and with aspects of production, circulation and consecration?

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Field, material, technique: On renewing postcolonial literary criticism

Cited by 29 publications

References 10 publications

Law, Women, and Literary Studies: Understanding the Thought of Nawal El-Saadawi in Woman at Point Zero

Law, Women, and Literary Studies: Understanding the Thought of Nawal El-Saadawi in Woman at Point Zero

Crafts of world literature: Field, material and translation

Materials, Structures and African Literary Criticism: A Response

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