The GirlThe Girl
Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women
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Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st ed, No Longer Available.Book, 1998
Current format, Book, 1998, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsNo longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns - including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, female subjectivity, and nationalism - in new ways, while also continuing to envision girlhood in relation to such themes as love, separation from the mother, and maternal loss or overprotection.
Nine contributions investigate contemporary works of fiction by women to explore the legacies of expectation and competing cultural ideologies of growing up female in British, American, and postcolonial societies at the end of the 20th century. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Examines the changing image of the girl in contemporary women’s fiction
Looks at growing up female in British and American literature
No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns - including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, female subjectivity, and nationalism - in new ways, while also continuing to envision girlhood in relation to such themes as love, separation from the mother, and maternal loss or overprotection.
Nine contributions investigate contemporary works of fiction by women to explore the legacies of expectation and competing cultural ideologies of growing up female in British, American, and postcolonial societies at the end of the 20th century. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Examines the changing image of the girl in contemporary women’s fiction
Looks at growing up female in British and American literature
No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns - including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, female subjectivity, and nationalism - in new ways, while also continuing to envision girlhood in relation to such themes as love, separation from the mother, and maternal loss or overprotection.
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- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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