Women Shapeshifters

Transforming the Contemporary Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

AvThelma J.Y. Richard,Thelma J. Y. Richard,Thelma J. Shinn,Thelma Richard

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This study presents an exciting new approach to novels that combine the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life. Women are the prototypical Other in patriarchal societies, as can be seen in the first four novelists—Eudora Welty, Gloria Naylor, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing—who are primarily known as realists but who disrupt our expectations to shift our perspective. Moreover, Shinn analyzes how Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Toni Cade Bambara write out of their consciousness as hyphenated Americans about what is necessary to achieve an integrated self and an integrated society. Shinn explores how these women have expanded not only the language but the very structure of their novels and have transformed the novelistic tradition.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-09-30
Mått161 x 240 x 16 mm
Vikt473 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313296765

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THELMA J. SHINN is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. She has published in such journals as Contemporary Literature, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal, Literature and Psychology, and Modern Drama. She is the author of Radiant Daughters: Fictional American Women (Greenwood, 1986) and Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women (Greenwood, 1986).

Preface Introduction Revisioning Reality The Wheel of Life: Eudora Welty and Gloria Naylor The Word Made Man: Margaret Atwood Mapping the Mind: Doris Lessing Realizing the Romance Signifyin(g) Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler Magic Realism: Isabel Allende Re-Possessing the Romance: A. S. Byatt Reinventing the World Orbiting Home: Toni Cade Bambara Unwinding the K(Not): Maxine Hong Kingston Weaving the Web: Leslie Marmon Silko Conclusion Bibliography Index