04937nam 2200709 a 450 991045721640332120200520144314.01-283-21279-X978661321279594-012-0067-X10.1163/9789401200677(CKB)2550000000043115(EBL)3008271(SSID)ssj0000622056(PQKBManifestationID)11451264(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622056(PQKBWorkID)10654996(PQKB)11774652(MiAaPQ)EBC3008271(OCoLC)746010832(nllekb)BRILL9789401200677(Au-PeEL)EBL3008271(CaPaEBR)ebr10490235(CaONFJC)MIL321279(OCoLC)923621957(EXLCZ)99255000000004311520110831d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnsettling the Bildungsroman[electronic resource] reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction /Stella BlakiAmsterdam ;New York, NY Rodopi20111 online resource (280 p.)Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ;no. 4Description based upon print version of record.90-420-3367-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Female travelling in the West/Indies: trauma and bound motion in Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River and Lucy -- “The mestiza way”: a Bildung of the borderlands in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street -- “It translated well”: the promise and the perils of translation in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior -- “In the name of grand asymmetries”: body Bildung in Audre Lorde’s work -- Postscript: temporary stopovers and new departures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.What kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke? How can we account for the continuing hold of the Bildungsroman as a model of analysis? Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examining closely the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde, the chapters foreground processes of constructing an alternative “art of living” which challenges the Bildungsroman ’s drive for either assimilation or ethnic homogeneity and pushes for new configurations of ethnic and American female identity. Drawing on feminist/gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, translation theory, queer theory, and disability studies, the book provides a theoretically engaged rethinking of the Bildungsroman ’s form and function. Addressing questions of aesthetics and politics, freedom and belonging, betrayal and responsibility, and tracing the Bildungsroman ’s links with life-writing forms such as immigrant narrative, mother-daughter story, biomythography, and illness narrative, the study outlines the various ways in which the novel of individual development becomes an appropriate site for the negotiation of several enduring and contentious tensions in ethnic American writing. Of potential interest to scholars of American literature, but also ethnic, feminist and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature and culture, the book demonstrates the Bildungsroman ’s ongoing relevance and expanded capacity of representation in an ethnic American and postcolonial context.Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ;no. 4.Bildungsromans, AmericanWomen authors20th centuryHistory and criticismBildungsromans, AmericanMinority authors20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionMinority authors20th centuryHistory and criticismWomen in literature20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Bildungsromans, AmericanWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Bildungsromans, AmericanMinority authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Women in literatureHistory and criticism.809.89Bolaki Stella903479MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457216403321Unsettling the Bildungsroman2019757UNINA