Multi-ethnicity as a resource for the literary imagination : the creative achievements of women artists, poets, and novelists /

Through an analysis of culturally specific constructions of gender and spirituality in the verbal and visual texts, this study reveals syncretic presences and a new paradigm for reading. Furthermore, this project argues that these women create and install cultural citizenship, which proposes alterna...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rader, Pamela J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2009]
Subjects:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Minority women in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Multiculturalisme dans la littérature.
Femmes issues des minorités dans la littérature.
Féminisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Minority authors
American literature > Women authors
Ethnicity in literature
Feminism in literature
Minority women in literature
Multiculturalism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reading twins and two-spirit characters in The woman who owned the shadows and Almanac of the dead
  • Sor Juana, la malinche, Guadalupe, and the santera: iconoclastic revisions of the feminine
  • The new spirit child: Africanisms in Beloved and Daughters of the dust
  • Haiti's exiled daughters: migrations in the writings of Edwidge Danticat and Myriam J.A. Chancy.

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