Contemporary Women's Writing
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 17541476, 17541484

Publisher: Oxford University Press

History: 2009-2021

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Scope/Description:

Contemporary Womens Writing critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present especially in essays that reach beyond a reading of a single text in order to challenge existing thinking or extend debates about an author genre topic or theoretical perspective and relate literary analysis to wider cultural and intellectual contexts.The journal aims to reflect retrospectively on developments throughout the period to survey the variety of contemporary work and to anticipate the new and provocative in womens writing. It welcomes theoretical cultural historical geographical formalist and political approaches to contemporary womens writing. It takes an interest in the production and reception of contemporary womens writing in terms of the practices of individual authors the creation of cultural and literary fields and the construction of readerships. Publishing original work in English Contemporary Womens Writing is open to essays on literature in English and other languages and to interviews with prominent women writers of any nationality. It welcomes submissions relating to all literary forms and from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. The journal editors invite proposals for special issues to be coordinated by guest associate editors.