Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing (Clarendon Lectures)

Showalter, Elaine

ISBN 10: 0198123833 / ISBN 13: 9780198123835

Editore: Clarendon Press, 1991

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Riassunto:

Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States?

Drawing on a wide range of writers from Margaret Fuller to Alice Walker, Elaine Showalter argues that post-colonial as well as feminist literary theory can help us understand the hybrid, intertextual, and changing forms of American women's writing, and the way that `women's culture' intersects with other cultural forms. Showalter looks closely at three American classics - Little Women, The Awakening, and The House of Mirth - and traces the transformations in such major themes, images, and genres of American women's writing as the American Miranda, the Female Gothic, and the patchwork quilt. Ending with a moving description of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she shows how the women's tradition is a literary quilt that offers a new map of a changing America.

Informazioni sull?autore: Elaine Showalter is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of A Literature of Their Won, and the editor of The New Feminist Criticism.

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Titolo: Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in ...
Casa editrice: Clarendon Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1991
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good