An edition of Constructing the literary self (2013)

Constructing the literary self

race and gender in twentieth-century literature

Constructing the literary self
Patsy J. Daniels, Patsy J. Dan ...
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An edition of Constructing the literary self (2013)

Constructing the literary self

race and gender in twentieth-century literature

Construction of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions. This volume is about that kind of oppression and strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and Family and the Self --

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Table of Contents

Preface --
Introduction -- -- Part I.
Race, gender, and the self:
Empathy and metaphor : the critique and embrace of essentialist thought in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge -- Helen F. Maxson.
Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter : "strange fruit" in The fig tree -- Patsy J. Daniels.
Shakespeare's Othello : postmodern paradigm shifts and the American "other" -- Everett G. Neasman.
The walls are crumbling down : houses as death metaphors in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and To the lighthouse -- Emily Clark -- Part II.
Assimilation and the self:
Disidenitfication with the homogenizing and commodifying narratives of ethnicity in Han Ong's Fixer Chao -- Youngsuk Chae.
Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast jazz, and the politics of identity formation -- Shawn P. Holliday -- Part III.
Black males and the self:
Appropriate Blackness : Oreo dreams deferred in Charles Fuller's A soldier's play -- Claude Wilkinson.
"A friend of my mind" : rhetorical strategies of Black male subjectivity in Beloved -- Aaron N. Oforlea -- Part IV.
Female sexuality and the self:
"The best stuff God did" : the rhetoric of same sex intimacy and egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker's The color purple and Ann Allen Shockley's Say Jesus and come to me -- Tara Tuttle.
E(race)ing female sexuality in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Cameron E. Williams -- Part V.
The family and the self:
Layers of identity formation in Ana Castillo's Peel my love like an onion -- Lucinda Channon.
Division of maternal effort in Anne Enright's The gathering -- Candis P. Pizzetta.
When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban -- Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels
Contributors --
Index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Dewey Decimal Class
809.933840904
Library of Congress
PN56.S46 C65 2013

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Pagination
xvi, 253 pages
Number of pages
253

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Open Library
OL31213992M
ISBN 10
1443845302
ISBN 13
9781443845304
LCCN
2014431297
OCLC/WorldCat
854941557

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