03325nam 2200649 a 450 991078276130332120230828233938.01-58729-739-6(CKB)1000000000704714(EBL)843147(OCoLC)646887508(SSID)ssj0000210904(PQKBManifestationID)11184943(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210904(PQKBWorkID)10291128(PQKB)10176240(MiAaPQ)EBC843147(MdBmJHUP)muse9204(Au-PeEL)EBL843147(CaPaEBR)ebr10354411(EXLCZ)99100000000070471420060315d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew visions of community in contemporary American fiction[electronic resource] Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison /Magali Cornier MichaelIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-511-3 1-58729-505-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rethinking Community for the Twenty-First Century; Choosing Hope and Remaking Kinship: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club; Negotiating Collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven; Collective Liberation and Activism via Spirituality: Ana Castillo's So Far from God; The Call to Love, to Assert Power with Others: Toni Morrison's Paradise; Conclusion: Looking to the Future; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal. Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by womAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticismEthnicity in literatureCommunities in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Ethnicity in literature.Communities in literature.813/.54099287Michael Magali Cornier1531576MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782761303321New visions of community in contemporary American fiction3799521UNINA