كتاب
Opening acts: narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction
| العنوان: | Opening acts: narrative beginnings in twentieth-century feminist fiction |
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| المؤلفون: | Romagnolo, Catherine, author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xxxi, 155 pages ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Frontiers of narrative Frontiers of narrative. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism., American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism., Feminism in literature., Narration (Rhetoric), Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century., LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors., Criticism, interpretation, etc., History. |
| الوصف: | "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"-- "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"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | No place for her individual adventure: Motherhood, marriage, and new beginnings in Summer -- Waves of beginnings: The ebb of heterosexual romance in Paint It Today -- Moving in lofty spirals: Circularity and narrative beginnings in The Bluest Eye -- Circling the history of slavery: Multilayered beginnings in Beloved -- Swan feathers and Coca-Cola: Authenticity and origins in The Joy Luck Club -- Bordering Yolanda García: Recessive origins in How the García Girls Lost their Accents. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn907651162 (PromptCat)40025214933 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8032-6963-7 0-8032-6963-3 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014487968.9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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