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Opening acts : narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction / / Catherine Romagnolo



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Autore: Romagnolo Catherine Visualizza persona
Titolo: Opening acts : narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction / / Catherine Romagnolo Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 813.009/9287
Soggetto topico: American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Feminism in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century
Classificazione: LIT004290
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: ""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""
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
"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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Opening acts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8032-8502-7
0-8032-8500-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824726003321
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Serie: Frontiers of narrative.