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1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Race, gender, and the self: Empathy and metaphor : the critique and embrace of essentialist thought in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge / Helen F. Maxson. Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter : "strange fruit" in The fig tree / Patsy J. Daniels. Shakespeare's Othello : postmodern paradigm shifts and the American "other" / Everett G. Neasman. Walls are crumbling down : houses as death metaphors in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and To the lighthouse / Emily Clark -- Part II. Assimilation and the self: Disidenitfication with the homogenizing and commodifying narratives of ethnicity in Han Ong's Fixer Chao / Youngsuk Chae. Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast jazz, and the politics of identity formation / Shawn P. Holliday -- Part III. Black males and the self: Appropriate Blackness : Oreo dreams deferred in Charles Fuller's A soldier's play / Claude Wilkinson. "A friend of my mind" : rhetorical strategies of Black male subjectivity in Beloved / Aaron N. Oforlea -- Part IV. Female sexuality and the self: "The best stuff God did" : the rhetoric of same sex intimacy and egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker's The color purple and Ann Allen Shockley's Say Jesus and come to me / Tara Tuttle. E(race)ing female sexuality in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Cameron E. Williams -- Part V. Family and the self: Layers of identity formation in Ana Castillo's Peel my love like an onion / Lucinda Channon. Division of maternal effort in Anne Enright's The gathering / Candis P. Pizzetta. When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
Construction of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions. This volume is about that kind of oppression and strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and Family and the Self. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Daniels, Patsy J., 1944- editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Constructing the literary self 9781443845304 (OCoLC)854941557 |
| ISBN |
9781443861113 (electronic book) |
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1443861111 (electronic book) |
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9781443845304 |
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1443845302 |
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