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Author:

Hebbar, Reshmi J.

Title:

Modeling minority women : heroines in African and Asian American fiction / Reshmi J. Hebbar.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xxvii, 152 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Minority women--United States--Intellectual life.
African American women--Intellectual life.
Asian American women--Intellectual life.
Women and literature--United States.
African American women in literature.
Asian American women in literature.
Minority women in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-148) and index.

Contents:

Someday my prince will come: ambivalent romance and ethnicity in the fiction of the Eaton sisters -- The fairest of them all: ethnicity, heroines, and the objectifying lens -- Cinderella's understudies: marginality, ethnicity, and the negotiated spaces of heroine desire -- Little princesses: a new generation of ethnic, adolescent heroines.

Series:

Studies in Asian Americans

ISBN:

9780415972321
0415972329

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56880334

LCCN:

2004025325

Locations:

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