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Critical Characters in Search of an Author: Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf
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Can a dialogic New Modernist paradigm be made to fulfill its intended potential as a literary and scholarly geomodernist geopolitical equalizer? With this question in the background, this chapter considers Woolf’s review of Cornelia Sorabji, whose Between the Twilights, an auto/biografictional 1908 account of upper-caste Hindu purdahnashin women, Woolf read and wrote on at the same time she was composing the auto/biographical, fragmentary account of her childhood published by Jeanne Schulkind in Moments of Being (1976) as “Reminiscences.” Sorabji’s equivocal, subversive, sliding strategies, chief among them a predilection to, as Woolf put it in A Room of One’s Own, “talk of something else.” are reminiscent of/evoke Woolf’s own.
Title: Critical Characters in Search of an Author: Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf
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Can a dialogic New Modernist paradigm be made to fulfill its intended potential as a literary and scholarly geomodernist geopolitical equalizer? With this question in the background, this chapter considers Woolf’s review of Cornelia Sorabji, whose Between the Twilights, an auto/biografictional 1908 account of upper-caste Hindu purdahnashin women, Woolf read and wrote on at the same time she was composing the auto/biographical, fragmentary account of her childhood published by Jeanne Schulkind in Moments of Being (1976) as “Reminiscences.
” Sorabji’s equivocal, subversive, sliding strategies, chief among them a predilection to, as Woolf put it in A Room of One’s Own, “talk of something else.
” are reminiscent of/evoke Woolf’s own.
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