Modeling Minority Women: Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415972321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 184 str.

Reshmi J. Hebbar

Opis

This thought-provoking study challenges current models of ethnic-studies criticism and analyses of 'ethnic' narrative subjectivity that emphasize the cultural politics of ethnic traditions. Examining African and Asian American women's poetics, it presents an alternative critical method that focuses on patterns of 'transcultural' and transnational heroine construction occurring as canonical nineteenth-century 'anglo' narratives of femininity inform, and twentieth-century American expressions of feminine identity. poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors, this study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Someday My Prince Will Come: Ambivalent Romance and Ethnicity in the Fiction of the Eaton Sisters  2. The Fairest of Them All: Ethnicity, Heroines, and the Objectifying Lens  3. Cinderella's Understudies: Marginality, Ethnicity, and the Negotiated Spaces of Heroine Desire  4. Little Princesses: A New Generation of Ethnic, Adolescent Heroines.  Epilogue.

O autorze

Reshmi J. Hebbar has taught literary and cultural studies at several Atlanta colleges, including Spelman College and The Georgia Institute of Technology.