LEADER 04924nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910819328203321 005 20240410155119.0 010 $a1-283-21279-X 010 $a9786613212795 010 $a94-012-0067-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401200677 035 $a(CKB)2550000000043115 035 $a(EBL)3008271 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622056 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451264 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622056 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10654996 035 $a(PQKB)11774652 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008271 035 $a(OCoLC)746010832 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401200677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3008271 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10490235 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321279 035 $a(OCoLC)923621957 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000043115 100 $a20110831d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnsettling the Bildungsroman$b[electronic resource] $ereading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction /$fStella Blaki 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York, NY $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aCritical approaches to ethnic American literature ;$vno. 4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3367-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Female travelling in the West/Indies: trauma and bound motion in Jamaica Kincaid?s At the Bottom of the River and Lucy -- ?The mestiza way?: a Bildung of the borderlands in Sandra Cisneros?s The House on Mango Street -- ?It translated well?: the promise and the perils of translation in Maxine Hong Kingston?s The Woman Warrior -- ?In the name of grand asymmetries?: body Bildung in Audre Lorde?s work -- Postscript: temporary stopovers and new departures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aWhat kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke? How can we account for the continuing hold of the Bildungsroman as a model of analysis? Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women?s Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examining closely the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde, the chapters foreground processes of constructing an alternative ?art of living? which challenges the Bildungsroman ?s drive for either assimilation or ethnic homogeneity and pushes for new configurations of ethnic and American female identity. Drawing on feminist/gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, translation theory, queer theory, and disability studies, the book provides a theoretically engaged rethinking of the Bildungsroman ?s form and function. Addressing questions of aesthetics and politics, freedom and belonging, betrayal and responsibility, and tracing the Bildungsroman ?s links with life-writing forms such as immigrant narrative, mother-daughter story, biomythography, and illness narrative, the study outlines the various ways in which the novel of individual development becomes an appropriate site for the negotiation of several enduring and contentious tensions in ethnic American writing. Of potential interest to scholars of American literature, but also ethnic, feminist and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature and culture, the book demonstrates the Bildungsroman ?s ongoing relevance and expanded capacity of representation in an ethnic American and postcolonial context. 410 0$aCritical approaches to ethnic American literature ;$vno. 4. 606 $aBildungsromans, American$xWomen authors$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBildungsromans, American$xMinority authors$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aBildungsromans, American$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBildungsromans, American$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.89 700 $aBolaki$b Stella$01650544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819328203321 996 $aUnsettling the Bildungsroman$93999966 997 $aUNINA