Women and Water in Global Fiction by Emma Staniland PAPERBACK 9781032417141

Taylor & Francis

Women and Water in Global Fiction\nby Emma Staniland\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 14\u201315 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Emma Staniland\nTitle: Women and Water in Global Fiction\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis\nPublication year: 2023\nEdition: 1\nISBN-13: 9781032417141\nISBN-10: 1032417145\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nSymbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital importance of water as life force, which has given it a central place in cultural vocabularies worldwide. These symbolic economies, in turn, inform the discourses through which pos.