Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory

Representing National Time
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-60542-8
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 225 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Problem of Static Time: Totalization, the End of History and the End of the 1960s Heir Apparent: Legacies of the 1960s in The Women's Room and Vida Dead-End Job: The Stepford Wives, Domestic Labor and the End of History Promiscuous Times: Post-Structuralist Desires in Rubyfruit Jungle and Fear of Flying Alice Walker's Hindsight and the Price of Futurity My Mother, Myself: Sentiment and the Transcendence of Time in The Joy Luck Club and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Coda: Hurried Woman Tales

Über Autor(innen)

JANE ELLIOTT is Lecturer of English at University of York, UK.