1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965012703321

Autore

Hawthorne Susan <1951->

Titolo

The butterfly effect / / Susan Hawthorne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

North Melbourne, Vic., : Spinifex, 2005

ISBN

9781742194066

1742194060

9781742190327

1742190324

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

821/.914

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235- 246).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note to Sappho; The Butterfly Effect; Unstopped Mouths; Composition; Dialogues with Death; India Sutra; Fragilities; Bibliography; Films; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

The flap of a butterfly's wing in one part of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side, just as the word ""lesbian""?a force full of vitality and world-changing creativity?can destroy families and bring down governments. Evoking the ancient worlds of pre-Vedic and Sapphic lovers, medieval jonglaresas, and nuns ""fingering petals and hips,"" as well as the contemporary world of circuses, global politics, friendship, betrayal, and death, the poems in this collection fold in on themselves, exploding into concentric rings of meaning, rich in symbol and metaphor.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959532103321

Autore

Roberson Susan L. <1950-, >

Titolo

Antebellum American women writers and the road : American mobilities / / Susan L. Roberson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-88865-9

1-283-53304-9

9786613845498

0-203-84001-1

1-136-88866-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; ; 5

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, American - History and criticism

American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Travel writing - History - 19th century

Travel in literature

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road American Mobilities; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: American Mobilities; 1 "What hath befallen me": Sites of Contestation in Sarah Beavis's Two Narratives of Her Adventures on the Mississippi River; 2 "With the Wind Rocking the Wagon": Women's Narratives of the Way West; 3 The Politics of Mobility: Self and Nation In-(Between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes; 4 "A Higher Call": Mobility, Spirituality, and Social Uplift in the Narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee

5 Circulations of Body and Word: Women's Slave Narratives6 Domesticating the Road in the Wide World of Antebellum Women's Novels; 7 Touristic Writing by Antebellum Women Sightseers; 8 Jane



Cazneau and Margaret Fuller: The Politics of Mobility-Manifest Destiny and Revolution; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A study of American women's narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movemen