LEADER 03322nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910811092603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-739-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000704714 035 $a(EBL)843147 035 $a(OCoLC)646887508 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184943 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291128 035 $a(PQKB)10176240 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843147 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9204 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843147 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354411 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000704714 100 $a20060315d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew visions of community in contemporary American fiction $eTan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison /$fMagali Cornier Michael 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-511-3 311 $a1-58729-505-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aIn 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 wom 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEthnicity in literature 606 $aCommunities in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEthnicity in literature. 615 0$aCommunities in literature. 676 $a813/.54099287 700 $aMichael$b Magali Cornier$01642887 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811092603321 996 $aNew visions of community in contemporary American fiction$93987818 997 $aUNINA