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Autore |
Hebbar Reshmi J. |
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Titolo |
Modeling minority women : heroines in African and Asian American fiction / / Reshmi J. Hebbar |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-415-88243-5 |
1-135-87340-2 |
0-203-94257-4 |
1-135-87341-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (181 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - Asian American authors - History and criticism |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism |
Minority women - United States - Intellectual life |
African American women - Intellectual life |
Asian American women - Intellectual life |
Women and literature - United States |
African American women in literature |
Asian American women in literature |
Minority women in literature |
Heroines in literature |
Women in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-148) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Someday my prince will come : ambivalent romance and ethnicity in the fiction of the Eaton sisters -- The fairest of them all : ethnicity, heroines, and the objectifying lens -- Cinderella's understudies : marginality, ethnicity, and the negotiated spaces of heroine desire -- Little princesses : a new generation of ethnic, adolescent heroines. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus |
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