Acts of narrative resistance [[electronic resource] ] : women's autobiographical writings in the Americas / / Laura J. Beard |
Autore | Beard Laura J. <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Collana | American literatures initiative |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Women authors
Autobiography - Political aspects Latin American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Women - America - Biography - History and criticism Women in literature Biography as a literary form |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8139-3057-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction""; ""1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors""; ""2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext""; ""PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre""; ""3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories""; ""4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams""
""PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women""""5 ""The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk"": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action""; ""6 ""Part of Surviving Is through Remembering"": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457313903321 |
Beard Laura J. <1962-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acts of narrative resistance [[electronic resource] ] : women's autobiographical writings in the Americas / / Laura J. Beard |
Autore | Beard Laura J. <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Collana | American literatures initiative |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Women authors
Autobiography - Political aspects Latin American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Women - America - Biography - History and criticism Women in literature Biography as a literary form |
ISBN | 0-8139-3057-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction""; ""1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors""; ""2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext""; ""PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre""; ""3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories""; ""4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams""
""PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women""""5 ""The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk"": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action""; ""6 ""Part of Surviving Is through Remembering"": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781996103321 |
Beard Laura J. <1962-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acts of narrative resistance [[electronic resource] ] : women's autobiographical writings in the Americas / / Laura J. Beard |
Autore | Beard Laura J. <1962-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Collana | American literatures initiative |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Women authors
Autobiography - Political aspects Latin American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Latin American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism Canadian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism Women - America - Biography - History and criticism Women in literature Biography as a literary form |
ISBN | 0-8139-3057-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction""; ""1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors""; ""2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext""; ""PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre""; ""3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories""; ""4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams""
""PART THREE: Bearing Witness to the Self and the Community: Testimonial Works by Indigenous Women""""5 ""The Life of Bobbi Lee Is about Why We Must Talk"": Testimonial Literature as a Call to Action""; ""6 ""Part of Surviving Is through Remembering"": The Ethics and Politics of Life Narratives about Indian Residential School Experiences""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817320103321 |
Beard Laura J. <1962-> | ||
Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond bombshells : the new action heroine in popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in literature
Women in popular culture Women heroes in motion pictures Mass media and women Action and adventure films - History and criticism Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Heroines in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4968-0323-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2. Teams, Partners, Romance, and Action Heroines; 3. Ethnicity and New Action Heroines; 4. Panthers and Vixens Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books; 5. Supermoms? Maternity and the Monstrous-Feminine in Superhero Comics; 6. Sex, Romance, and the Teenage Superheroine; 7. Girl Revolutionaries Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines; 8. Pretty Little Killers; CONCLUSION. Still Wondering about Wonder Woman; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466862303321 |
Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> | ||
Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond bombshells : the new action heroine in popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in literature
Women in popular culture Women heroes in motion pictures Mass media and women Action and adventure films - History and criticism Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Heroines in literature |
ISBN | 1-4968-0323-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2. Teams, Partners, Romance, and Action Heroines; 3. Ethnicity and New Action Heroines; 4. Panthers and Vixens Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books; 5. Supermoms? Maternity and the Monstrous-Feminine in Superhero Comics; 6. Sex, Romance, and the Teenage Superheroine; 7. Girl Revolutionaries Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines; 8. Pretty Little Killers; CONCLUSION. Still Wondering about Wonder Woman; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796034103321 |
Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> | ||
Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond bombshells : the new action heroine in popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in literature
Women in popular culture Women heroes in motion pictures Mass media and women Action and adventure films - History and criticism Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Heroines in literature |
ISBN | 1-4968-0323-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2. Teams, Partners, Romance, and Action Heroines; 3. Ethnicity and New Action Heroines; 4. Panthers and Vixens Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books; 5. Supermoms? Maternity and the Monstrous-Feminine in Superhero Comics; 6. Sex, Romance, and the Teenage Superheroine; 7. Girl Revolutionaries Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines; 8. Pretty Little Killers; CONCLUSION. Still Wondering about Wonder Woman; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818333603321 |
Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> | ||
Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Deviant women : cultural, linguistic and literary approaches to narratives of feminity / / Tiina Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg, Anna Foka, (editors) |
Edizione | [1 ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : PL Academic Research, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RyallAnka |
Soggetto topico |
Femininity in literature
Deviant behavior in literature Female offenders in literature Femininity Deviant behavior Female offenders |
ISBN |
3-653-99592-2
3-653-03319-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction (Tiina Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg, Anna Foka); Deviant Women: Socio-Cultural Perspectives; Towards a Definition of Deviance; Narrative as a Conceptual Starting Point/Perspective; Past Scholarship, Contents and Purpose of the Volume; Reconstructing Narratives of Female Deviance; Works Cited; I. Deviance: Historical and Cultural Perspectives; Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography (Anna Foka); Introduction; Theodora: Byzantine Context, Social Norm and Deviance; Lust: Actress and Prostitute
The Villain: Cruelty and Violence Conclusions: Sexuality, Violence, Manipulation and Power = Social Deviance?; Works Cited; Ghosts and Spirits as the object a in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio (Wang Lei); Introduction; The Polyvalent object a; The 'Scholar' as the Parodic Phallus; Volatile and Versatile Ghosts and Spirits; Conclusion; Works Cited; Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions (Sanna Karkulehto and Ilmari Leppihalme); Introduction; 'I will give men as the price for fire an evil thing'. The Pandora Myth as an Epistemological Cautio 'Familiarity in the unfamiliar'. The Freudian Mystery and the Threat of Pandora'Who or what is behind this ... flesh?' The Female Body and Will to Knowledge; '[If] she opened this thing?' Pandora and Epistemology of the Closet; Pandora as a Metaphor of Feminist Thought; Works Cited; II. Contemporaneity, Deviance, Subjectivity and Violence; Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency (Tiina Mäntymäki); Introduction; The Carnivalesque, the Trickster and Lisbeth Salander; Lisbeth Salander Becomes a Trickster Figure; Tricking as Carnivalesque The Dissolution of the Trickster and the End of the Carnivalesque Conclusions; Works Cited; Secondary Sources; Primary Sources; Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities (Marinella Rodi-Risberg); Trauma in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees; Trauma and Contextual Factors; Incest, Race and Transgressive Desire; Trauma, Memory and the Rearticulation of Subjectivity; The Ethics of (Reading) Trauma; Works Cited 'Baby Killer!' - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender (Caroline Enberg)Introduction; Media Representations of Female Violence; Good Motherhood and Murder; Casey Anthony breaking the norms of motherhood; Indulgence; Neglect; Anthony's Self-Representation; Public Opinion; Conclusions; Works Cited; Primary sources; Secondary Sources; III. Deviance and/as (In)visibility; The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rotary Norden (Maj;Britt Höglund); Introduction; Women and Rotary; Rotary Norden Multimodal Discourse Analysis and Ideology |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476921303321 |
Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : PL Academic Research, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Heroines of comic books and literature : portrayals in popular culture / / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Heroines in literature Women in popular culture Women in mass media Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4422-3148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Literature; 1 To Heck with the Village; 2 From Duckling to Swan; 3 Salem's Daughters; 4 Heroine; 5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell; 6 Writing Women in War; Part II: Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer; 7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media; 8 Janissary; 9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men; 10 Negotiating Life Spaces; 11 The Mother of All Superheroes; 12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?; 13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders
Part III: Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics14 Punching Holes in the Sky; 15 Jumping Rope Naked; 16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant; 17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know; 18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman; 19 Empowerment as Transgression; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463874403321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Heroines of comic books and literature : portrayals in popular culture / / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Heroines in literature Women in popular culture Women in mass media Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-4422-3148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Literature; 1 To Heck with the Village; 2 From Duckling to Swan; 3 Salem's Daughters; 4 Heroine; 5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell; 6 Writing Women in War; Part II: Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer; 7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media; 8 Janissary; 9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men; 10 Negotiating Life Spaces; 11 The Mother of All Superheroes; 12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?; 13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders
Part III: Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics14 Punching Holes in the Sky; 15 Jumping Rope Naked; 16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant; 17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know; 18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman; 19 Empowerment as Transgression; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787825503321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Heroines of comic books and literature : portrayals in popular culture / / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Heroines in literature Women in popular culture Women in mass media Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-4422-3148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Literature; 1 To Heck with the Village; 2 From Duckling to Swan; 3 Salem's Daughters; 4 Heroine; 5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell; 6 Writing Women in War; Part II: Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer; 7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media; 8 Janissary; 9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men; 10 Negotiating Life Spaces; 11 The Mother of All Superheroes; 12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?; 13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders
Part III: Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics14 Punching Holes in the Sky; 15 Jumping Rope Naked; 16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant; 17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know; 18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman; 19 Empowerment as Transgression; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808935803321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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