LEADER 03990nam 2200709 450 001 9910797573803321 005 20230807221642.0 010 $a0-8032-8502-7 010 $a0-8032-8500-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000465746 035 $a(EBL)3571070 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001544827 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16134927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544827 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14264083 035 $a(PQKB)10720921 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571070 035 $a(OCoLC)918941497 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46614 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571070 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11090870 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL823208 035 $a(OCoLC)932325732 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000465746 100 $a20151122h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOpening acts $enarrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction /$fCatherine Romagnolo 210 1$aLincoln, Nebraska ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 1 $aFrontiers of Narrative Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-6963-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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 Garci?a""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $a"Examination of the ways twentieth-century novels deployed formal beginnings to challenge and destabilize the masculine and racialized authorities of traditional narrative beginnings, using six novels as case studies"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"In the beginning there was. the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups. Catherine Romagnolo argues for a critical awareness of how social identity plays a role in the strategic use and critical interpretation of narrative beginnings.The twentieth-century U.S. women writers whom Romagnolo studies--Edith Wharton, H.D., Toni Morrison, Julia Alvarez, and Amy Tan--have seized the power to disrupt conventional structures of authority and undermine historical master narratives of marriage, motherhood, U.S. nationhood, race, and citizenship. Using six of their novels as points of entry, Romagnolo illuminates the ways in which beginnings are potentially subversive, thereby disrupting the reinscription of hierarchically gendered and racialized conceptions of authorship and agency"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aFrontiers of narrative. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminism in literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminism in literature. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a813.009/9287 686 $aLIT004290$2bisacsh 700 $aRomagnolo$b Catherine$01543345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797573803321 996 $aOpening acts$93796735 997 $aUNINA