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The Girl. Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women.
Ruth O. . Ed(S): Saxton
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Description for The Girl. Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women.
Hardback. Editor(s): Saxton, Ruth O. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 392.
No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns - ... Read more
No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312173531
SKU
V9780312173531
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Ref
99-15
About Ruth O. . Ed(S): Saxton
RUTH O. SAXTON is Professor of English and Dean of Letters at Mills College where she co-founded the Women's Studies Program. She is the co-editor of Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold and has published essays on mothers and daughters, Doris Lessing, Anne Tyler, and Virginia Woolf.
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