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Title Anxious power : reading, writing, and ambivalence in narrative by women / edited by Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [1993]
©1993

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 Moore Stacks  PS152 .A59 1993    Available  ---
Description xxvi, 400 pages ; 23 cm.
Series SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Female language, body, and self / Carol J. Singley -- Formal strategies in a female narrative tradition : the case of Swann : a mystery / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Christine Antygrafe : authorial ambivalence in the works of Christine de Pizan / Christine Moneera Laennec -- Our bodies/our texts? : Renaissance women and the trials of authorship / Wendy Wall -- A politics of disguise : Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's "Belle-etoile" and the narrative structure of ambivalence / Patricia Hannon -- Galesia, Jane Parker, and a coming to authorship / Kathryn R. King -- The word as battleground in Jane Austen's Persuasion / Julia Giordano -- "This altogather precious tho wholy worthless book" : the diary of Mary Guion, 1800-1852 / Martha Tomhave Blauvelt -- Power and resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Debra Humphreys -- Mirroring the mother-text : histories of seduction in the American domestic novel / Elizabeth L. Barnes -- Charlotte Brontë and desire (to write) : pleasure and prohibition / Patricia E. Johnson --
Sarah Grand's The Beth book : the new woman and the ideology of the romance ending / Terri Doughty -- Forbidden reading and ghostly writing in Edith Wharton's "Pomegranate seed" / Carol J. Singley, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Willa Cather and the fiction of female development / Judith Fetterley -- "How do we [not] become these people who victimize us?" : anxious authorship in the early fiction of Joyce Carol Oates / Brenda O. Daly -- Receiving the other : the feminine economy of Clarice Lispector's The hour of the star / Deborah J. Archer -- "What there was before language" : preliteracy in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Deborah L. Clarke -- Literary tricksterism : Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Bonnie TuSmith -- Different voices : the re-bildung of the barrio in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Leslie S. Gutiérrez-Jones -- Ambiguous benefits : reading and writing in feminist metafiction / Gayle Greene -- Letters from nowhere : Fanny Howe's Forty whacks and feminine identity / Johnny Payne --
Scripted, conscripted, and circumscribed : body language in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Sheila C. Conboy -- Discourse as power : renouncing denial / Diane P. Freedman.
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors.
French literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
French literature -- Women authors.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Feminism and literature.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature.
Women and literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Added Author Singley, Carol J., 1951-
Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, 1958-
ISBN 0791413896 alkaline paper $49.50
079141390X paperback alkaline paper $16.95