American Women Writing Fiction : Memory, Identity, Family, Space /
American literature is no longer the refuge of the solitary hero. Like the society it mirrors, it is now a far richer, many-faceted explication of a complicated and diverse society -- racially, culturally, and ethnically interwoven and at the same time fractured and fractious. Ten women writing fict...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | American literature is no longer the refuge of the solitary hero. Like the society it mirrors, it is now a far richer, many-faceted explication of a complicated and diverse society -- racially, culturally, and ethnically interwoven and at the same time fractured and fractious. Ten women writing fiction in America today -- Toni Cade Bambara, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, and Mary Lee Settle -- represent that geographic, ethnic, and racial diversity that is distinctively American. Their differ. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (248 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813157825 |