"The only efficient instrument" : American women writers & the periodical, 1837-1916 / / edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane & Susan Alves
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| Titolo: |
"The only efficient instrument" : American women writers & the periodical, 1837-1916 / / edited by Aleta Feinsod Cane & Susan Alves
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9287/09034 |
| 810.9928709034 | |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
| Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century | |
| American literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| American literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Journalism - United States - History | |
| American periodicals - History | |
| Altri autori: |
CaneAleta Feinsod <1949->
AlvesSusan <1958->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: Part 1 Gender, Voice, and Self-Representation -- 1 Testing and Testifying: The Hart Sisters -- 2 The Heartbeat of a West Indian Slave: -- The History of Mary Prince -- 3 The Enigma of Arrival: Wonderful -- Adventures of Mrs. Seacole --Part 2 The Estranging Sea 73 -- 4 "The Traveling Ulysses Scene": -- Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home -- and My Green Hills of Jamaica -- 5 Blurred Genres, Blended Voices: -- George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin -- 6 Autobiographical Frameworks and -- Linked Discourses: George Lamming's -- The Pleasures of Exile and C. L. R. James's -- Beyond a Boundary -- 7 Poetic Autobiography: Derek Walcott's -- Another Life -- Part 3 Birthrights and Legacies -- 8 Fragments of Epic Memory: V. S. Naipaul's -- Finding the Center and A Way in the World -- 9 Maternal Bonds: My Mother's Daughter: -- The Autobiography of Anna Mahase., Snr., -- 1899-1978 -- 10 Colonist and Creole: Yseult Bridges's Child -- of the Tropics and Jean Rhys's Smile Please --Part 4 Autobiography, Elegy, and -- Gender Identification 227 -- 11 Beyond Consolation: Kamau Brathwaite's -- The Zea Mexican Diary -- 12 Death and Sexuality: Jamaica Kincaid's -- My Brother. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""The Only Efficient Instrument"" examines farsighted women writers in nineteenth-century America whose pioneering use of newspapers and magazines had a vital impact on the political and intellectual communities of their day."" |
| Titolo autorizzato: | "The only efficient instrument" |
| ISBN: | 9781587294006 |
| 1587294001 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910955657203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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