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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Titolo: Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in ...

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press

Data di pubblicazione: 1991

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Good

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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.

Recensione:

`Once again she has uncovered an extraordinary range of little-known writing, and little-known shades to those better known.' New Statesman & Society

`The revaluation of the Gothic genre has been one of the few genuine achievements of feminist criticism and Elaine Showalter lays out a fascinating summary of psychoanalytical interpretations'Tony Dunn, Tribune

`Elaine Showalter lays out a fascinating summary of psychoanalytical interpretations.' Tribune

'Showalter's ultimate response to the question that begins her book is a resounding yes. The path to that conclusion is an enriching and graifying one,' Navina Krishna Hooker. university of St Andrews. Review of English Studies