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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... experience that cultural context in a tremendous variety of ways , depending on many factors such as age , class , and sexual orientation - as well as ethnic identity . The challenge to feminist studies by women of ethnic minorities ...
... experience that cultural context in a tremendous variety of ways , depending on many factors such as age , class , and sexual orientation - as well as ethnic identity . The challenge to feminist studies by women of ethnic minorities ...
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... experience . Equally important is the acknowledgment that whiteness is also a social construction of ethnicity . A white woman may not be doubly marginalized in the way that a Native - American woman is ; still , being a white woman ...
... experience . Equally important is the acknowledgment that whiteness is also a social construction of ethnicity . A white woman may not be doubly marginalized in the way that a Native - American woman is ; still , being a white woman ...
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... experience , Viramontes ' story considers the possibility that a larger community might be founded on the common experience of suffering , which transcends gender and ethnic difference and demands ethical responsibility . Lakshmi ...
... experience , Viramontes ' story considers the possibility that a larger community might be founded on the common experience of suffering , which transcends gender and ethnic difference and demands ethical responsibility . Lakshmi ...
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... experience in fiction . This combining of two traditions enables Lorde to redefine European myth in ways that make it relevant to the experience of all women . She forges a re - visioning of Esu as Afrekete , which gives a feminine face ...
... experience in fiction . This combining of two traditions enables Lorde to redefine European myth in ways that make it relevant to the experience of all women . She forges a re - visioning of Esu as Afrekete , which gives a feminine face ...
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... experience . Orr suggests that " Welty facilitates a reading of whiteness through the marginalization of blackness , " but that it is not the Africanist presence which is betrayed : " [ i ] nstead , the white middle - class girl dreamer ...
... experience . Orr suggests that " Welty facilitates a reading of whiteness through the marginalization of blackness , " but that it is not the Africanist presence which is betrayed : " [ i ] nstead , the white middle - class girl dreamer ...
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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