Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction / / Stella Blaki.
What kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke? How can we account for the continuing hold of the Bildungsroman as a model of analysis? Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic com...
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| Superior document: | Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ;
no. 4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Female travelling in the West/Indies: trauma and bound motion in Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River and Lucy
- “The mestiza way”: a Bildung of the borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
- “It translated well”: the promise and the perils of translation in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
- “In the name of grand asymmetries”: body Bildung in Audre Lorde’s work
- Postscript: temporary stopovers and new departures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.