Cora Kaplan - Double Crossings: Feminism, Race, the Popular

The essays brought together in this book span the last quarter century of Cora Kaplan’s imaginative thinking and writing about the interrelated questions of gender, race, class and empire. They include work on feminism’s cultural politics, women’s writing on race and empire in Britain in the long nineteenth century, the reimagining of gender in modern crime writing and popular film, and the political/personal work of memoir. Linked by an historical approach to literary and cultural works, a...