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Title:

Constructing the literary self : race and gender in twentieth-century literature / edited by Patsy J. Daniels.

Publisher:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xvi, 253 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Self in literature.
Race in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Daniels, Patsy J., 1944- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The family and the self. When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Preselfannie W. McDaniels. Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter : Strange fruit in The fig tree / Patsy J. Daniels -- Shakespeare's Othello : postmodern paradigm shifts and the American other / Everett G. Neasman -- The walls are crumbling down : houses as death metaphors in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and To the lighthouse / Emily Clark -- Assimilation and the self. Disidenitfication with the homogenizing and commodifying narratives of ethnicity in Han Ong's Fixer Chao / Youngsuk Chae -- Lawson Fusao Inada, west coast jazz, and the politics of identity formation / Shawn P. Holliday -- Black males and the self. Appropriate Blackness : Oreo dreams deferred in Charles Fuller's A soldier's play / Claude Wilkinson -- A friend of my mind : strategies of Black male subjectivity in Beloved / Aaron N. Oforlea -- Female sexuality and the self. The best stuff God did : the rhetoric of same sex intimacy and egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker's The color purple and Ann Allen Shockley's Say Jesus and come to me / Tara Tuttle -- E(race)ing female sexuality : the discourse of incest and representations of womanhood in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Cameron E. Williams -- The family and the self. Layers of identity formation in Ana Castill's Peel my love like an onion / Lucinda Channon -- Division of maternal effort in Anne Enright's The gathering / Canids P. Pizzetta -- When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Preselfannie W. McDaniels.

Summary:

Construction of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions. This volume is about that kind of oppression and strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and Family and the Self.

ISBN:

1443845302 (hbk.)
9781443845304 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)854941557

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)