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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... patriarchal cultures , and each explores how the 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 ...
... patriarchal cultures , and each explores how the 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 ...
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... patriarchal culture that has defined the feminine in opposition to the masculine , even though individual women experience that cultural context in a tremendous variety of ways , depending on many factors such as age , class , and ...
... patriarchal culture that has defined the feminine in opposition to the masculine , even though individual women experience that cultural context in a tremendous variety of ways , depending on many factors such as age , class , and ...
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... patriarchal community . Thus , these ethnic and gender concepts reveal inventions , fantasies , that are real in the sense that they name and define groups in ways that reverberate in our culture and in our individual experiences ...
... patriarchal community . Thus , these ethnic and gender concepts reveal inventions , fantasies , that are real in the sense that they name and define groups in ways that reverberate in our culture and in our individual experiences ...
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... patriarchal cultures of their ethnic groups . Yet one finds again and again in their work the effort to surmount these oppositions and to establish themselves as autonomous subjects . For essayist D. L. Madsen , Sandra Cisneros's The ...
... patriarchal cultures of their ethnic groups . Yet one finds again and again in their work the effort to surmount these oppositions and to establish themselves as autonomous subjects . For essayist D. L. Madsen , Sandra Cisneros's The ...
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... patriarchal Chicano cultures as well . It is therefore not surprising to find in Chicana writing a rich variety of formal and linguistic experimentation . This has been remarked upon by Renato Rosaldo who points particularly to the use ...
... patriarchal Chicano cultures as well . It is therefore not surprising to find in Chicana writing a rich variety of formal and linguistic experimentation . This has been remarked upon by Renato Rosaldo who points particularly to the use ...
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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