From girl to woman : American women's coming-of-age narratives /

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"From Girl to Woman examines the coming-of-age narratives of a diverse group of American women writers, including Annie Dillard, Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Mary McCarthy, and explores the crucial role of such narratives in the development of American feminism. Women have long...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rishoi, Christy, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Colección:SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Temas:
Women's studies > United States > Biographical methods.
Women > Identity.
Social role.
Maturation (Psychology)
Self-realization.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Women and literature > United States.
Feminist criticism.
Feminist literary criticism.
Études sur les femmes > États-Unis > Histoires de vie.
Femmes > Identité.
Rôle social.
Maturation (Psychologie)
Réalisation de soi.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Critique féministe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Women and literature.
Women's studies > Biographical methods.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Identity and the coming-of-age narrative
  • Recreating womanhood
  • 2. Feminism, autobiography, and theories of subjectivity
  • Feminism and the autobiographical act
  • Western theories of subjectivity
  • Feminist poststructuralist revisions to subjectivity
  • 3. Coming of age in America
  • Historical accounts of adolescence
  • Psychological accounts of adolescence
  • Literary accounts of coming age
  • The coming-of-age-narrative
  • American grand narratives of coming of age
  • 4. Specifying American girlhood : Annie Dillard and Anne Moody
  • Specifying the universal in An American childhood
  • Hegemonic inscription of the body in Coming of age in Mississippi
  • 5. "Lying contests" : fictional autobiography and autobiographical fiction
  • "Lying contests" : signifying coming of age Janie's ways of knowing
  • 6. "Room for paradoxes" : creating a hybrid identity
  • A "World of paper strengths" : the education of Kate Simon
  • Mythology and narrative in the creation of identity: the Woman warrior.

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