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Author Rich, Charlotte J.

Title Transcending the New Woman : multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / Charlotte J. Rich.

Publication Info. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2009]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.99287 R498T    Check Shelf
Description viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
Summary "Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how these authors articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social class, race, or ethnicity impacted women's experiences"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights -- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence -- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman -- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood -- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion.
Subject American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Feminist literature -- History and criticism.
Progressivism (United States politics)
ISBN 9780826218261 alkaline paper
0826218261 alkaline paper
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