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Title:

The girl : constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women / edited by Ruth O. Saxton.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xxix, 178 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Girls in literature.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction.
American fiction--Women authors.
English fiction.
English fiction--Women authors.
Girls in literature.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
United States.
Frauenroman
Mädchen
USA
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Saxton, Ruth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical reference (pages 153-164) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Ruth 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" / Brenda Daly -- Self-possession, dolls, Beatlemania, loss : telling the girl's own story / Gina Hausknecht -- The battleground of the adolescent girl's body / Brenda Boudreau -- When the back door is closed and the front yard is dangerous : the space of girlhood in Toni Morrison's fiction / Deborah Cadman -- Dizzying possibilities, plots and endings : girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris beach / Elinor Ann Walker -- "I ain't no FRIGGIN LITTLE WIMP" : the girl "I" narrator in contemporary fiction / Renee R. Curry -- Coming-of-age in the snare of history : Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother / Diane Simmons -- Subversive storytelling : the construction of lesbian girlhood through fantasy and fairy tale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Isabel C. Anievas Gamallo -- But that was in another country : girlhood and the contemporary "coming to America" narrative / Rosemary Marangoly George.

Summary:

"The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fictions by women, tackling the forces at work on both the fictional girls and the writers themselves. The first collection of critical essays to examine the portrayal of girls in contemporary women's fiction within the context of recent sociological and psychological analyses of girls, The Girl proposes that contemporary stories of girlhood constitute a new lens for literary and cultural study. Examining the work of authors such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates for their revelations and representations in regard to girlhood, these essays speak to, complement, and contest one another in a compelling interrogation of what it means to grow up female at the end of the millennium."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780312173531
0312173539
9780333913840
0333913841
9780312225780
0312225784

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43938953

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)