Sister's choice : tradition and change in American women's writing

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Sister's choice : tradition and change in American women's writing

Elaine Showalter

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991

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"The Clarendon lectures, 1989"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States? Drawing on a wide range of writers from Margaret Fuller to Alice Walker, Elaine Showalter argues that post-colonial as well as feminist literary theory can help us understand the hybrid, intertextual, and changing forms of American women's writing, and the way that `women's culture' intersects with other cultural forms. Showalter looks closely at three American classics - Little Women, The Awakening, and The House of Mirth - and traces the transformations in such major themes, images, and genres of American women's writing as the American Miranda, the Female Gothic, and the patchwork quilt. Ending with a moving description of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she shows how the women's tradition is a literary quilt that offers a new map of a changing America.

目次

  • American questions
  • Miranda's story
  • "Little Women" - the American female myth
  • "The Awakening" - tradition and the American female talent
  • the death of the lady (novelist) - Wharton's "House of Mirth"
  • the other lost generation
  • American female Gothic
  • common threads.

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