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New visions of community in contemporary American fiction : Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison /
In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition bui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal. Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by wom. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587297397 1587297396 |