The girl : constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women

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The girl : constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women

edited by Ruth O. Saxton

Macmillan, 1998

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Works cited: p. [153]-164

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The image of "the girl" in contemporary fiction by women today stands in stark contrast to configurations of girlhood in earlier fiction. No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian "marriage or death" plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new challenges and freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. This collection tackles the contemporary forces at work on both the girls in fiction created by women and the writers themselves. It investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the 20th century as portrayed in contemporary fictions by women. The contributors aim to show how contemporary fictions of "the girl" provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, female subjectivity, and nationalism in new ways, while also continuing to envision girlhood in relation to such themes as love, separation from the mother, and maternal loss or over-protection.

目次

  • Introduction
  • R.O.Saxton Where Is She Going, Where Are We Going, at Century's End? The Girl as Site of Cultural Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's The Model
  • B.Daly Self-Possession, Dolls, Beatlemania, Loss: Telling the Girl's Own Story
  • G.Hausknecht The Battleground of the Adolescent Girl's Body
  • B.Boudreau When the Back Door is Closed and the Front Yard is Dangerous: The Space of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's Fiction
  • D.Cadman Dizzying Possibilities, Plots, and Endings: Girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach
  • E.A.Walker 'I Ain't No FRIGGIN' LITTLE WIMP': The Girl 'I' Narrator in Fiction by Women
  • R.Curry Coming of Age in the Snare of History: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
  • D.Simmons Subversive Storytelling: The Construction of Lesbian Girlhood through Fantasy and Fairytale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  • I.A.Gamallo But That Was in Another Country: Girlhood and the Contemporary 'Coming to America' Narrative
  • R.M.George Notes on Contributors

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