Rishoi From Girl to Woman

American Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8688-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Examines the crucial role that coming-of-age narratives have played in American feminism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rishoi, Christy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments 1. Identity and the Coming-of-Age Narrative
Recreating Womanhood
2. Feminism, Autobiography, and Theories of Subjectivity
Feminism and the Autobiographical Act
Western Theories of Subjectivity
Feminist Poststructuralist Revisions of Subjectivity
3. Coming of Age in America
Historical Accounts of Adolescence
Psychological Accounts of Adolescence
Literary Accounts of Coming of Age
The Coming-of-Age Narrative
American Grand Narratives of Coming of Age
4. Specifying American Girlhood: Annie Dillard and Anne Moody
Specifying the Universal in An American Childhood
Hegemonic Inscription of the Body in Coming of Age in Mississippi
5. "Lying Contests": Fictional Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction
"Lying Contests": Signifying Coming of Age
Janie's Ways of Knowing
6. "Room for Paradoxes": Creating a Hybrid Identity
A "World of Paper Strengths": The Education of Kate Simon
Mythology and Narrative in the Creation of Identity: The Woman Warrior
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christy Rishoi is Professor of English at Mott College.