| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages). |
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Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4
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Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I: Female travelling in the West/Indies -- 1. Trauma and the Bildungsroman -- 2. Mobilities in the traditional Bildungsroman -- 3. Locating the postcolonial travelling subject -- 4. Merging with and separating from the mother: bound motion in At the Bottom of the River -- 5. The politics of a silent voice -- 6. Declarations of in(ter)dependence in Lucy -- 7. Locomotive tongues: voice and body in Lucy -- II: "The mestiza way" -- 1. Individualism or communitarianism? -- 2. Mastering "the art of the present": unnatural boundaries and borderlands -- 3. Weaving and unweaving through the vignette -- 4. "Private open spaces": rebilding [sic] the private and the public -- 5. More room to play: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation -- III: "It translated well" -- 1. The promise and the perils of translation -- 2. "Minoritising" translations: the "Japanese Hamlet" and the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 3. Translation and marriage in the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 4. "La belle infidéle": the feminist translator and her dilemmas -- 5. "Impossible conversions": translating the letter or the sense? -- 6. "Dwelling in travel": translating the mother's tongue -- 7. Seduction and the "father's text" -- 8. "Something gives": revisiting relevance -- IV: "In the name of grand asymmetries" -- 1. Imprinting the body: lessons of survival and emotional tattoos -- 2. Against uniformity: transgressive spellings of the body -- 3. From the personal to the political: cancer and its meanings -- A poetics of death: ars moriendi as an art of living -- 5. The art of love: uses of the erotic. |
| Summary |
Unsettling the Bildungsroman combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cisneros, Sandra. |
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Kincaid, Jamaica. |
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Kingston, Maxine Hong. |
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Lorde, Audre. |
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Cisneros, Sandra. |
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Kincaid, Jamaica. |
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Kingston, Maxine Hong. |
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Lorde, Audre. |
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Cisneros, Sandra, 1954- |
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Kincaid, Jamaica, 1949- |
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Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1940- |
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Lorde, Audre, 1934-1992. |
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Bildungsromans, American -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Bildungsromans, American -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Women in literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bolaki, Stella. Unsettling the bildungsroman. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011 9789042033672 (OCoLC)746010832 |
| ISBN |
9789401200677 (electronic bk.) |
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940120067X (electronic bk.) |
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128321279X |
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9781283212793 |
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9789042033672 |
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9042033673 |
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