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On Remaining Minor in Modernisms: The Future of Women’s Literature
Author(s) -
Sarker Sonita
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12041
Subject(s) - scholarship , hegemony , minor (academic) , identity (music) , interrupt , field (mathematics) , history , aesthetics , literature , globalization , psychology , sociology , gender studies , art , political science , computer science , law , telecommunications , mathematics , transmission (telecommunications) , politics , pure mathematics
This essay revisits the idea of the ‘minor’, as manifested in the origins of women’s studies, in the newer contexts of globalization, and presents a potential future for it within modernist studies. This idea has represented identity in genealogies of activism and in the history of scholarship on women’s literature. Now, it may be read as also representing a position and a strategy that interrupt hegemonic forces in the field. This interruption allows the juxtaposition of the well‐known with the lesser‐known as well as different formations of the minoritized to enable new forms of modernist studies.