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Constructing the literary self : race and gender in twentieth-century literature /
Construction of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions. This volume is about that kind of oppression and strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literatu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Race, gender, and the self: Empathy and metaphor : the critique and embrace of essentialist thought in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge / Helen F. Maxson. Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter : "strange fruit" in The fig tree / Patsy J. Daniels. Shakespeare's Othello : postmodern paradigm shifts and the American "other" / Everett G. Neasman. The walls are crumbling down : houses as death metaphors in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and To the lighthouse / Emily Clark
- Part II. Assimilation and the self: Disidenitfication with the homogenizing and commodifying narratives of ethnicity in Han Ong's Fixer Chao / Youngsuk Chae. Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast jazz, and the politics of identity formation / Shawn P. Holliday
- Part III. Black males and the self: Appropriate Blackness : Oreo dreams deferred in Charles Fuller's A soldier's play / Claude Wilkinson. "A friend of my mind" : rhetorical strategies of Black male subjectivity in Beloved / Aaron N. Oforlea
- Part IV. Female sexuality and the self: "The best stuff God did" : the rhetoric of same sex intimacy and egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker's The color purple and Ann Allen Shockley's Say Jesus and come to me / Tara Tuttle. E(race)ing female sexuality in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Cameron E. Williams
- Part V. The family and the self: Layers of identity formation in Ana Castillo's Peel my love like an onion / Lucinda Channon. Division of maternal effort in Anne Enright's The gathering / Candis P. Pizzetta. When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels
- Contributors
- Index.