Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies
著者
書誌事項
Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies
University Press of Kentucky, c1985
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全35件
注記
Includes bibliographies
収録内容
- Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter
- Grace Paley, chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer
- Annie Dillard, narrative fringe / William J. Scheick
- Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater
- Cynthia Ozick, invention and orthodoxy / Ellen Pifer
- Anne Tyler, medusa points and contact points / Mary F. Robertson
- Alice Walker, the dialect and letters of The color purple / Elizabeth Fifer
- Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique and female identity / Suzanne Juhasz
- Toni Morrison, mastery of narrative / Linda W. Wagner
- Marge Piercy, the double narrative structure of Small changes / Elaine Tuttle Hansen and William J. Scheick
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression.
The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent ways rely heavily upon narrative gaps, surfaces, and silences, often suggesting depths which are lamentably absent from modern experience or which mysteriously elude language. For Kingston and Walker, verbal assertiveness is the focus of narratives depicting the gradual empowerment of female protagonists who learn to speak themselves into existence.
Ozick and Tyler disrupt conventional reader expectations of the "anti-novel" and the "family novel," respectively. Finally, Morrison's and Piercy's works reveal how traditional narrative forms such as the Bildungsroman and the "soap opera" are adaptable to feminist purposes.
In examining the writings of these ten important women authors, this book illuminates a significant moment in literary history when women's voices are profoundly reshaping American literary tradition.
目次
Being There, a Reflection
Coal, a Very Hard Subject
The Great Coal Strike of 1927
Emotions Related to the Great Strike
Emotions, Work Values, and Exploitation
Work Is What You Make It
Why Worry?
Emotions Related to Danger
Dignity, a Complex Subject
Reflections upon Leaving
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