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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... racial oppression . Similarly , for Nancy Chick , Judith Ortiz Cofer , in her story collection Silent Dancing : A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood , " negotiates her own space within Puerto Rican and American literature ...
... racial oppression . Similarly , for Nancy Chick , Judith Ortiz Cofer , in her story collection Silent Dancing : A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood , " negotiates her own space within Puerto Rican and American literature ...
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... racial difference through strategies of containment . Chick's analysis of the stories that make up Silent Dancing demonstrates how Ortiz Cofer " opens up our conceptions of race , culture , and gender , each of which becomes a signifier ...
... racial difference through strategies of containment . Chick's analysis of the stories that make up Silent Dancing demonstrates how Ortiz Cofer " opens up our conceptions of race , culture , and gender , each of which becomes a signifier ...
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... racial codes to disguise the racial identities of the story's important characters , she compels the reader to confront issues of racial difference within the story itself and , beyond this , to participate in the contemporary public ...
... racial codes to disguise the racial identities of the story's important characters , she compels the reader to confront issues of racial difference within the story itself and , beyond this , to participate in the contemporary public ...
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... racial and class differences while erasing gender differences ( 2916A ) . Chicana writers consciously re - place the female subject at the center of a deconstructed Chicano discourse , just as they insist upon the importance of ...
... racial and class differences while erasing gender differences ( 2916A ) . Chicana writers consciously re - place the female subject at the center of a deconstructed Chicano discourse , just as they insist upon the importance of ...
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... . Here the rhetoric of love and sex is revealed in the harsh light of racial and gender oppression . As a " Spanish girl , " Esperanza is most vulnerable to sexual attack ; in the carnival grounds , ( Dis ) Continuous Narrative 9.
... . Here the rhetoric of love and sex is revealed in the harsh light of racial and gender oppression . As a " Spanish girl , " Esperanza is most vulnerable to sexual attack ; in the carnival grounds , ( Dis ) Continuous Narrative 9.
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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