New visions of creation : feminist innovations in literary theory / volume editors, Maria Elena de Valdes, Margaret R. Higonnet.

On cover : Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association.

Includes bibliographical references.

Feminist sociocriticism and Latin American testimonial fiction / Mar Elena de Vald -- Feminist revisionary narratives : literature, history, counter-memory / Bella Brodzki -- Autobiographical visions of women by Latin-American and European writers : lives in fiction / Marga Graf -- The concept of feminist creativity in postcommunist countries / Halina Janaszek Ivani飫ov-- Glimpses of present-day Japanese women / Meio Masako -- Tearing the veil of invisibility : the roles of West African female writers in contemporary times / Aduke Grace Adebayo -- From myth to documentary and back again : writing the lives of Australian Aboriginal women / Margaret Stoljar -- Physical torture and modes of creative expression : a study of'Cambio de armas' and'Draupadi' / Kavita Panjabi -- A woman's retelling of the Rama-tale : Chandrabati Ramayana re-read in 1990 / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- The family prison in Ibsen and Strindberg / Ross Shideler -- Early modern drama's female death plots / Joan Templeton -- Nouvelles visions de la crtivitau th{u2969}atre proposs par des femmes dramaturges actuelles / Seighild Bogumil -- Visions of women's beauty and eroticism : the meaning of images of the ideal woman in East and West / Saeki Junko -- Matrices of war / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Feminism and the new history / Sandra L. Bermann --'Toutes ces Muettes adorables' : woman as poet / Andrea Cady -- Feminist/Comparatists and the art of'resisting teaching' / Kathleen L. Komar.

Essays in English.