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Title Anxious power : reading, writing, and ambivalence in narrative by women / edited by Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [1993]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  809.89287 A637A    Check Shelf
Description xxvi, 400 pages ; 23 cm.
Series SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Female language, body, and self / Carol J. Singley -- Formal strategies in a female narrative tradition : the case of Swann : a mystery / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Christine Antygrafe : authorial ambivalence in the works of Christine de Pizan / Christine Moneera Laennec -- Our bodies/our texts? : Renaissance women and the trials of authorship / Wendy Wall -- A politics of disguise : Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's "Belle-etoile" and the narrative structure of ambivalence / Patricia Hannon -- Galesia, Jane Parker, and a coming to authorship / Kathryn R. King -- The word as battleground in Jane Austen's Persuasion / Julia Giordano -- "This altogather precious tho wholy worthless book" : the diary of Mary Guion, 1800-1852 / Martha Tomhave Blauvelt -- Power and resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Debra Humphreys -- Mirroring the mother-text : histories of seduction in the American domestic novel / Elizabeth L. Barnes -- Charlotte Brontë and desire (to write) : pleasure and prohibition / Patricia E. Johnson --
Sarah Grand's The Beth book : the new woman and the ideology of the romance ending / Terri Doughty -- Forbidden reading and ghostly writing in Edith Wharton's "Pomegranate seed" / Carol J. Singley, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Willa Cather and the fiction of female development / Judith Fetterley -- "How do we [not] become these people who victimize us?" : anxious authorship in the early fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda O. Daly -- Receiving the other : the feminine economy of Clarice Lispector's The hour of the star / Deborah J. Archer -- "What there was before language" : preliteracy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Deborah L. Clarke -- Literary tricksterism : Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Bonnie TuSmith -- Different voices : the re-bildung of the barrio in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Leslie S. Gutiérrez-Jones -- Ambiguous benefits : reading and writing in feminist metafiction / Gayle Greene -- Letters from nowhere : Fanny Howe's Forty whacks and feminine identity / Johnny Payne --
Scripted, conscripted, and circumscribed : body language in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Sheila C. Conboy -- Discourse as power : renouncing denial / Diane P. Freedman.
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Feminist literary criticism.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Added Author Singley, Carol J., 1951-
Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, 1958-
ISBN 0791413896 alkaline paper $49.50
079141390X paperback alkaline paper $16.95
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