Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American WomenCorinne H. Dale This collection of essays explores the intertwining social conditions of ethnicity and gender as they are represented in short stories by contemporary American women. The introduction to the collection explains the theoretical understanding of gender and ethnicity as social constructions that provide a context for individual experience. The collection brings together analyses of short stories that focus on major ethnic cultures in the United States: Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Japanese American, Asian American, African American, Jewish American, white Protestant American, and Native American. Each essay testifies to the struggles of women within patriarchal cultures in America, and each explores how different ethnic identities set the terms of these gender struggles. The essays also reveal the complications of other important social issues, such as class, sexual preference, and religion. Individually, each essay contributes a significant new analysis of a short story or collection by an important contemporary American writer. Together, the essays indicate the complexity and significance of this cultural approach to women's fiction, demonstrate the critical theories that are currently developing in the fields of gender and ethnic studies, and suggest that neither ethnicity nor gender can legitimately be considered alone. |
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... deconstruction of gender . Today we recognize that both gender and ethnicity are socially constructed : they do not define individuals but instead the cultural context in which we individually live . Ethnic identity describes a culture ...
... deconstruction of gender . Today we recognize that both gender and ethnicity are socially constructed : they do not define individuals but instead the cultural context in which we individually live . Ethnic identity describes a culture ...
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... are constantly under revision , they are deconstructed and reconstructed by the tensions between individual differences and social commonalities . The essays in this collection are organized according to ethnic Introduction xi.
... are constantly under revision , they are deconstructed and reconstructed by the tensions between individual differences and social commonalities . The essays in this collection are organized according to ethnic Introduction xi.
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... deconstructing race and racism . " Using an African - American oral storytelling style and employing ambiguous racial codes to disguise the racial identities of the story's important characters , she compels the reader to confront ...
... deconstructing race and racism . " Using an African - American oral storytelling style and employing ambiguous racial codes to disguise the racial identities of the story's important characters , she compels the reader to confront ...
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... deconstructed through this process of participatory reading that Morrison demands of her audience . Goldstein - Shirley also reports on an exercise of reader - response analysis with undergraduate readers , the results of which confirm ...
... deconstructed through this process of participatory reading that Morrison demands of her audience . Goldstein - Shirley also reports on an exercise of reader - response analysis with undergraduate readers , the results of which confirm ...
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... deconstructed Chicano discourse , just as they insist upon the importance of ethnicity in its relation to dominant Anglo - feminist discourses . White feminists and Chicano men mark out the gap that Chicana writers negotiate through ...
... deconstructed Chicano discourse , just as they insist upon the importance of ethnicity in its relation to dominant Anglo - feminist discourses . White feminists and Chicano men mark out the gap that Chicana writers negotiate through ...
Contents
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Beyond Otherness Negotiated Identities | 19 |
Judith Ortiz Cofers Silent Dancing Making More | 35 |
Flight and Arrival A Study of Padma Hejmadis | 53 |
Subversive Extravagance Women in Hisaye | 67 |
Afrekete Rising Two Comingout Stories | 81 |
RaceGender Toni Morrisons Recitatif | 97 |
Playing in the Light White Girls Dreaming | 111 |
Ruths Journey into the Fields Feminism | 129 |
Contributors Notes | 161 |
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