Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction /

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Unsettling the Bildungsroman combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bolaki, Stella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4.
Temas:
Cisneros, Sandra > 1954-
Kincaid, Jamaica > 1949-
Kingston, Maxine Hong > 1940-
Lorde, Audre > 1934-1992
Cisneros, Sandra.
Kincaid, Jamaica.
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Lorde, Audre.
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
1900-1999
Bildungsromans, American > Women authors > 20th century > History and criticism.
Bildungsromans, American > Minority authors > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Minority authors > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Roman d'éducation américain > Auteurs issus des minorités > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > Auteurs issus des minorités > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Women in literature
American fiction > Women authors
American fiction > Minority authors
American literature > Minority authors
Ethnicity
Language and culture
Literature
Women authors, American
Bildungsroman
Ethnizität > Motiv
Frauenliteratur
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: Female travelling in the West/Indies
  • 1. Trauma and the Bildungsroman
  • 2. Mobilities in the traditional Bildungsroman
  • 3. Locating the postcolonial travelling subject
  • 4. Merging with and separating from the mother: bound motion in At the Bottom of the River
  • 5. The politics of a silent voice
  • 6. Declarations of in(ter)dependence in Lucy
  • 7. Locomotive tongues: voice and body in Lucy
  • II: "The mestiza way"
  • 1. Individualism or communitarianism?
  • 2. Mastering "the art of the present": unnatural boundaries and borderlands
  • 3. Weaving and unweaving through the vignette
  • 4. "Private open spaces": rebilding [sic] the private and the public
  • 5. More room to play: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation
  • III: "It translated well"
  • 1. The promise and the perils of translation
  • 2. "Minoritising" translations: the "Japanese Hamlet" and the Asian American Bildungsroman
  • 3. Translation and marriage in the Asian American Bildungsroman
  • 4. "La belle infidéle": the feminist translator and her dilemmas
  • 5. "Impossible conversions": translating the letter or the sense?
  • 6. "Dwelling in travel": translating the mother's tongue
  • 7. Seduction and the "father's text"
  • 8. "Something gives": revisiting relevance
  • IV: "In the name of grand asymmetries"
  • 1. Imprinting the body: lessons of survival and emotional tattoos
  • 2. Against uniformity: transgressive spellings of the body
  • 3. From the personal to the political: cancer and its meanings
  • A poetics of death: ars moriendi as an art of living
  • 5. The art of love: uses of the erotic.

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