03990nam 2200709 450 991082472600332120230807221642.00-8032-8502-70-8032-8500-0(CKB)3710000000465746(EBL)3571070(SSID)ssj0001544827(PQKBManifestationID)16134927(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544827(PQKBWorkID)14264083(PQKB)10720921(MiAaPQ)EBC3571070(OCoLC)918941497(MdBmJHUP)muse46614(Au-PeEL)EBL3571070(CaPaEBR)ebr11090870(CaONFJC)MIL823208(OCoLC)932325732(EXLCZ)99371000000046574620151122h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOpening acts narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction /Catherine RomagnoloLincoln, Nebraska ;London, [England] :University of Nebraska Press,2015.©20151 online resource (192 p.)Frontiers of Narrative SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8032-6963-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 No Place for Her Individual Adventure""; ""2 Waves of Beginnings""; ""3 Moving in Lofty Spirals""; ""4 Circling the History of Slavery""; ""5 Swan Feathers and Coca-Cola""; ""6 Bordering Yolanda García""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"""Examination of the ways twentieth-century novels deployed formal beginnings to challenge and destabilize the masculine and racialized authorities of traditional narrative beginnings, using six novels as case studies"--Provided by publisher."In the beginning there was. the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups. Catherine Romagnolo argues for a critical awareness of how social identity plays a role in the strategic use and critical interpretation of narrative beginnings.The twentieth-century U.S. women writers whom Romagnolo studies--Edith Wharton, H.D., Toni Morrison, Julia Alvarez, and Amy Tan--have seized the power to disrupt conventional structures of authority and undermine historical master narratives of marriage, motherhood, U.S. nationhood, race, and citizenship. Using six of their novels as points of entry, Romagnolo illuminates the ways in which beginnings are potentially subversive, thereby disrupting the reinscription of hierarchically gendered and racialized conceptions of authorship and agency"--Provided by publisher.Frontiers of narrative.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFeminism in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Feminism in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)Women and literatureHistory813.009/9287LIT004290bisacshRomagnolo Catherine1648353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824726003321Opening acts3996419UNINA