| Description |
xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Longman critical readers |
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Longman critical readers.
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| Contents |
Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera: cultural studies, 'difference', and the non-unitary subject / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Subject, voice, and women in some contemporary Black American women's writing / Mary O'Connor -- Questioning race and gender definitions: dialogic subversions in The woman warrior / Malini Johar Schueller -- History, critical theory, and women's social practices: 'women's time' and Housekeeping / Thomas Foster -- Making Familia from scratch: split subjectivities in the work of Helena María Viramontes and Cherríe Moraga / Norma Alarcón -- Native American aesthetics: an attitude of relationship / Sidner Larson -- Claiming and making: ethnicity, gender, and the common sense in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god / Toni Flores -- Initiation in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Donna Perry -- The geography of female subjectivity: ethnicity, gender, and diaspora / Susan Koshy -- History, memory and language in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Rebecca Ferguson -- History, postmodernism, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks / Nancy J. Peterson -- Literary foremothers and writers' silences: Tillie Olsen's autobiographical fiction / Rose Kamel -- A perfect marginality: public and private telling in the stories of Grace Paley / Victoria Aarons. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-216) and index. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Social classes in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Added Author |
Zamora, Lois Parkinson.
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| ISBN |
058222621X |
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0582226201 paperback |
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