A collection of original essays exploring the diverse impact of Virginia Woolfs writing on contemporary global literature and culture.
To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolfs work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction.
This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolfs global reception and legacy. It contests the centre and periphery binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.
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List of Abbreviations of Virginia Woolf's Works |
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Introduction |
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Part I Planetary and Global Receptions of Woolf |
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1 `What a curse these translators are!' Woolf's Early German Reception |
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2 The Translation and Reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania (1926-89) |
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3 The Reception of Virginia Woolf and Modernism in Early Twentieth-Century Australia |
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4 Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo Channels Virginia Woolf |
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5 From Julia Kristeva to Paulo Mendes Campos: Impossible Conversations with Virginia Woolf |
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6 Three Guineas and the Cassandra Project - Christa Wolf's Reading of Virginia Woolf during the Cold War |
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7 Virginia Woolf's Literary Heritage in Russian Translations and Interpretations |
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8 Virginia Woolf's Feminist Writing in Estonian Translation Culture |
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9 Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A Feminist Paratextual Reading of Translation Strategies |
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10 Solid and Living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance |
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11 Tracing A Room of One's Own in sub-Saharan Africa, 1929-2019 |
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Part II Woolf's Legacies in Literature |
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12 Virginia Woolf's Enduring Presence in Uruguay |
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13 Virginia Woolf's Reception and Impact on Brazilian Women's Literature |
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14 English and Mexican Dogs: Spectres of Traumatic Pasts in Virginia Woolf's Flush and Maria Luisa Puga's Las razones del lago |
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15 A New Perspective on Mary Carmichael: Yuriko Miyamoto's Novels and A Room of One's Own |
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16 Rooms of Their Own: A Cross-Cultural Voyage between Virginia Woolf and the Contemporary Chinese Woman Writer Chen Ran |
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17 In Search of Spaces of Their Own: Woolf, Feminism and Women's Poetry from China |
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18 Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf's Feminist Legacy to Contemporary Polish Literature |
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19 Clarissa Dalloway's Global Itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney |
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20 Virginia Woolf and French Writers: Contemporaneity, Idolisation, Iconisation |
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21 The Dream Work of a Nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin |
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22 Great Poets Do Not Die: Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) as Metaphor for Contemporary Biofiction |
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23 The Woolf Girl: A Mother-Daughter Story with Virginia Woolf and Lidia Yuknavitch |
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Jeanne Dubino is Professor of English and Global Studies, Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies, Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), guest editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 50 (1997) and co-editor, with Beth C. Rosenberg, of Virginia Woolf and the Essay (St. Martin's Press, 1997).
Paulina Pajak is a Lecturer in English at University of Wroclaw. Her recent publications include essays in Woolf Studies Annual, Politeja and Women's History Review. She explores memory in Virginia Woolf's oeuvre, Central-European modernist networks and modernist legacies in contemporary Polish literature. Her research interests include modernism, memory studies and comparative literature.
Catherine W. Hollis, PhD, teaches writing in U.C. Berkeley's Fall Program for Freshmen. She has also worked as an assistant editor for the Emma Goldman Papers Project. She is the author of Leslie Stephen as Mountaineer (Cecil Woolf, 2010) as well as articles on Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and modernist women's communities.
Dr Vara Neverow is a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the editor of Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room (Harcourt, 2008) and, with Mark Hussey, of Virginia Woolf: Emerging Perspectives (Pace University Press, 1994), Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations (Pace University Press, 1993) and Virginia Woolf Miscellanies (Pace University Press, 1992).