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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... middle - class femininity , like Sojourner Truth when she claimed " Ain't I a woman ? " and bared her breast to prove it in spite of her life of hard labor as a field slave . Women of ethnic minorities are doubly marginalized ...
... middle - class femininity , like Sojourner Truth when she claimed " Ain't I a woman ? " and bared her breast to prove it in spite of her life of hard labor as a field slave . Women of ethnic minorities are doubly marginalized ...
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... middle - class , heterosexual white woman whose native language is English - means that attitudes about whiteness impinge on who she is and how others relate to her . Like all of us , white women live their lives in compliance with and ...
... middle - class , heterosexual white woman whose native language is English - means that attitudes about whiteness impinge on who she is and how others relate to her . Like all of us , white women live their lives in compliance with and ...
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... class . In a parallel move also originating in Morrison , Orr juxtaposes autobiographical moments of her own to the ironic illumination of the dark places within Welty's white middle - class girls ' experience . Orr suggests that ...
... class . In a parallel move also originating in Morrison , Orr juxtaposes autobiographical moments of her own to the ironic illumination of the dark places within Welty's white middle - class girls ' experience . Orr suggests that ...
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... middle - class white experience commonly represented by continuous linear narrative that conventional means of narrative representation are rejected as inadequate . Discontinuous narrative , the form that articulates Esperanza's ...
... middle - class white experience commonly represented by continuous linear narrative that conventional means of narrative representation are rejected as inadequate . Discontinuous narrative , the form that articulates Esperanza's ...
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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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