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Titolo: |
The girl : constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women / edited by Ruth O. Saxton
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Pubblicazione: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xxix, 178 p. ; 22 cm. |
Soggetto topico: | Scrittrici americane - Storia e critica |
Narrativa americana - Storia e critica | |
Scrittrici inglesi - Storia e critica | |
Narrativa inglese - Storia e critica | |
Ragazze nella letteratura | |
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
Girls in literature | |
Women and literature - United States - History | |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History | |
English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism | |
American fiction - History and criticism | |
English fiction - History and criticism | |
Altri autori: | Saxton, Ruth |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-164) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction / Ruth O. Saxton -- Where is she going, where are we going, at century's end : the girl as site of cultural conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's "The model" / Brenda Daly -- Self-possession, dolls, Beatlemania, loss : telling the girl's own story / Gina Hausknecht -- The battleground of the adolescent girl's body / Brenda Boudreau -- When the back door is closed and the front yard is dangerous : the space of girlhood in Toni Morrison's fiction / Deborah Cadman -- Dizzying possibilities, plots and endings : girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris beach / Elinor Ann Walker -- "I ain't no FRIGGIN LITTLE WIMP" : the girl "I" narrator in contemporary fiction / Renee R. Curry -- Coming-of-age in the snare of history : Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother / Diane Simmons -- Subversive storytelling : the construction of lesbian girlhood through fantasy and fairy tale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Isabel C. Anievas Gamallo -- But that was in another country : girlhood and the contemporary "coming to America" narrative / Rosemary Marangoly George. |
Lingua: | Inglese |
ISBN: | 0312173539 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 991000739579707536 |
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