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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Michael, Magali Cornier
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: rethinking community for the Twent-First Century
  • Choosing hope and remaking Kinship: amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
  • Negotiating collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven
  • Colelctive liberation and activism via spirituality: ana Castill's So Far from God
  • The call to love, to assert power with others: Toni Morrison's Paradise
  • Conclusion: looking to the future.