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03467aam a2200529 i 4500 001 F55A82EEECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150518s2015 nbu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2015014670 020 $a 0803269633 020 $a 9780803269637 035 $a (OCoLC)907651162 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.W6 $b R65 2015 082 00 $a 813.009/9287 $2 23 084 $a LIT004290 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Romagnolo, Catherine, $e author. 245 10 $a Opening acts : $b narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction / $c Catherine Romagnolo. 264 1 $a Lincoln ; $b University of Nebraska Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xxxi, 155 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Frontiers of narrative 520 $a "In the beginning there was. the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups. Catherine Romagnolo argues for a critical awareness of how social identity plays a role in the strategic use and critical interpretation of narrative beginnings. The twentieth-century U.S. women writers whom Romagnolo studies--Edith Wharton, H.D., Toni Morrison, Julia Alvarez, and Amy Tan--have seized the power to disrupt conventional structures of authority and undermine historical master narratives of marriage, motherhood, U.S. nationhood, race, and citizenship. Using six of their novels as points of entry, Romagnolo illuminates the ways in which beginnings are potentially subversive, thereby disrupting the reinscription of hierarchically gendered and racialized conceptions of authorship and agency"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Examination of the ways twentieth-century novels deployed formal beginnings to challenge and destabilize the masculine and racialized authorities of traditional narrative beginnings, using six novels as case studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Feminism in literature. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x Women Authors. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a American fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807099 650 7 $a Feminism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922752 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032927 650 7 $a Women and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177093 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Frontiers of narrative. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180127071827.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826035257.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F55A82EEECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search