LEADER 00000cam a2200637Ki 4500 001 on1138875715 003 OCoLC 005 20210122115857.3 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 200203s2019 ohua ob 001 0 eng d 020 9780821446447|q(electronic book) 020 0821446444|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780821423394 020 |z0821423398 035 (OCoLC)1138875715 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dOCLCO|dYDX|dEBLCP|dOCLCQ|dUKAHL 043 n-us--- 049 RIDW 050 4 PS153.P64|bK69 2019eb 082 04 813/.540992870899185|223 090 PS153.P64|bK69 2019eb 100 1 Kozaczka, Grażyna J.,|d1955-|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n86852537|eauthor. 245 10 Writing the Polish American woman in postwar ethnic fiction /|cGrażyna J. Kozaczka. 264 1 Athens, Ohio :|bOhio University Press,|c[2019] 300 1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages) :|billustrations. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-261) and index. 505 0 Introduction. Polish American women : a cultural and literary construct -- Faces of resistance : Monica Krawczyk's immigrant women -- At midcentury : Polish Americans writing their identity -- Suzanne Strempek Shea's gendered ethnicity in the 1970s and 1980s -- Leslie Pietrzyk and Ellen Slezak constructing ethnic motherhood - - Tragic motherhood in Danuta Mostwin's "Jocasta" -- Transgressive sexuality in Polish American fiction of the last twenty-five years -- (Im)migrant homelands in the early twenty-first century -- Experiments in ethnicity : the "solidarity" 1.5 generation -- Fifty years of girling : models of Polish American femininity in young adult literature -- Epilogue. 520 "Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland. Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women's efforts to construct gendered and classed ethnicity. Focusing predominantly on work by North American born and immigrant authors that represents the Polish American Catholic tradition, Grażyna J. Kozaczka puts texts in conversation with other American ethnic literatures. She positions ethnic gender construction and performance at an intersection of social class, race, and sex. She explores the marginalization of ethnic female characters in terms of migration studies, theories of whiteness, and the history of feminist discourse. Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction tells the complex story of how Polish American women writers have shown a strong awareness of their oppression and sought empowerment through resistive and transgressive behaviors"--|cProvided by publisher. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 American fiction|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85004317|xPolish American authors|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 American fiction|xWomen authors|xHistory and criticism. |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100757 650 0 Women in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85147587 650 0 Polish Americans in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh94008377 650 7 American fiction.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 807048 650 7 American fiction|xWomen authors.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/807099 650 7 Women in literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1177912 650 7 Polish Americans in literature.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1068898 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 776 08 |iPrint version:|aKozaczka, Grażyna J., 1955-|tWriting the Polish American woman in postwar ethnic fiction.|dAthens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]|z9780821423394|w(DLC) 2018045772|w(OCoLC)1060590177 830 0 Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002029032 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=2362910|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20210519|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksAcademic 1-22-21 4032|lridw 994 92|bRID