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Author:

June, Pamela B.

Title:

The fragmented female body and identity : the postmodern, feminist, and multiethnic writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma P©♭rez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker / Pamela B. June.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

157 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Feminism in literature
Female friendship in literature.
Ethnicity in literature
Self in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : multiethnic fragmentation and women's community -- The fragmented body and maternal healing : the examples of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dict©♭e -- Reliving African matrilineage : re-membering the past in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Childhood scars and women's love in Emma P©♭rez's Gulf dreams and Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows -- The case of the missing women : chaos and the absence of women's bonds in Kathy Acker's works -- Conclusion : resistance and feminist healing.

Series:

Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; v. 56

ISBN:

1433110504 (alk. paper)
9781433110504 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)608295611

LCCN:

2010014260

Locations:

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