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Reading with a Difference
Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity
A 'Criticism' Reader

Edited by Arthur F. Marotti, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman, Jo Dulan, and Suchritra Mathur 		Reading with a Difference is a collection of eighteen essays that examines how issues of gender, race, and cultural identity inform texts from the seventeenth century to the present. Together the contributions document recent significant shifts occurring in the theoretical approach to the texts that study and illustrate how shifts in each of these categories affect how the others are viewed.
First published in the journal Criticism, these essays offer no blueprint for reading. Instead they encourage a rereading of canonical texts and a questioning of how these texts face matters of gender, race, and cultural identity; how they respond to the differences and incongruities within the cultures from which they arise; and to which they speak.		 I. The Codes of Gender
1. The Discourse of Femaleness
2. The Discourse of Maleness

II. Cultural Identities
1. The Interplay of Gender, race, and Cultural Identity
2. Cross-Cultural Issues
 
$21.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2493-2

400 pages

1993