New visions of community in contemporary American fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison / / Magali Cornier Michael
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Michael Magali Cornier
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New visions of community in contemporary American fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison / / Magali Cornier Michael
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54099287 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
| Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century | |
| American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism | |
| Ethnicity in literature | |
| Communities in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | New visions of community in contemporary American fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-739-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454349703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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