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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Page ix
... narrator and author . For the development of an individual voice is the expression of the individually created Self - not that of a socially constructed Other . Ethnicity has always had a special resonance in the United States , a ...
... narrator and author . For the development of an individual voice is the expression of the individually created Self - not that of a socially constructed Other . Ethnicity has always had a special resonance in the United States , a ...
Page xii
... narrator Esperanza , who establishes herself as the controlling subject of her stories against not only patriarchal but also Anglo - feminist narratives of women's lives . In the end , Esperanza has achieved adulthood and independence ...
... narrator Esperanza , who establishes herself as the controlling subject of her stories against not only patriarchal but also Anglo - feminist narratives of women's lives . In the end , Esperanza has achieved adulthood and independence ...
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... narrator , relates the story of Fleur , a Chippewa woman ostracized by her tribe who comes to the white town settled by German Americans and refuses to conform to the white male conception of Squaw . When Fleur is gang - raped , Pauline ...
... narrator , relates the story of Fleur , a Chippewa woman ostracized by her tribe who comes to the white town settled by German Americans and refuses to conform to the white male conception of Squaw . When Fleur is gang - raped , Pauline ...
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... narrator as " the house I belong but do not belong to " ( 110 ) . Contemporary Chicano writers , especially , describe the sense of violation that comes from a close proximity to Anglo culture and the pervasive , corrupting influence of ...
... narrator as " the house I belong but do not belong to " ( 110 ) . Contemporary Chicano writers , especially , describe the sense of violation that comes from a close proximity to Anglo culture and the pervasive , corrupting influence of ...
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... narrator , Esperanza . Only at the end of the sequence does the narrative resolve itself into the historical present , as the schoolgirl narrator is replaced with the mature voice of Esperanza the author , who promises to tell us " a ...
... narrator , Esperanza . Only at the end of the sequence does the narrative resolve itself into the historical present , as the schoolgirl narrator is replaced with the mature voice of Esperanza the author , who promises to tell us " a ...
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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