Transcending the new woman : multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / / Charlotte J. Rich.
"Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how these authors articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social cla...
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 230 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America
- Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights
- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence
- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman
- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : Maria Cristina Mena and American womanhood
- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska
- Conclusion.