02873cam a2200445 a 450099100073957970753619981201082014.0980317s1998 nyu b 001 0 eng 980038490312173539b13265611-39ule_instDip.to Lingueitan-us---e-uk---BOSSThe girl :constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women /edited by Ruth O. Saxton.1st ed.New York :St. Martin's Press,1998.xxix, 178 p. ;22 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-164) and index.Introduction / Ruth O. Saxton -- Where is she going, where are we going, at century's end : the girl as site of cultural conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's "The model" / Brenda Daly -- Self-possession, dolls, Beatlemania, loss : telling the girl's own story / Gina Hausknecht -- The battleground of the adolescent girl's body / Brenda Boudreau -- When the back door is closed and the front yard is dangerous : the space of girlhood in Toni Morrison's fiction / Deborah Cadman -- Dizzying possibilities, plots and endings : girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris beach / Elinor Ann Walker -- "I ain't no FRIGGIN LITTLE WIMP" : the girl "I" narrator in contemporary fiction / Renee R. Curry -- Coming-of-age in the snare of history : Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother / Diane Simmons -- Subversive storytelling : the construction of lesbian girlhood through fantasy and fairy tale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Isabel C. Anievas Gamallo -- But that was in another country : girlhood and the contemporary "coming to America" narrative / Rosemary Marangoly George.IngleseScrittrici americaneStoria e criticaNarrativa americanaSec. 20Storia e criticaScrittrici inglesiSec. 20Storia e criticaNarrativa ingleseSec. 20Storia e criticaRagazze nella letteraturaAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Girls in literature.Women and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th century.Women and literatureGreat BritainHistory20th century.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism.Saxton, Ruth..b1326561109-03-2211-01-05991000739579707536LE012 813.540 992 87 SAX12012000096721le012-E0.00-l- 03030.i1398165111-01-05Girl1106299UNISALENTOle01211-01-05ma -engnyu40