Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780230110908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 193 str.

Alison Graham-Bertolini

Opis

Gun-toting, rough-riding, crack-shot women; train-robbing female bandits; blood-thirsty mothers who refuse to accept injustice- these women appear in vigilante literature as protagonists that recognize the extent of their own exploitation and directly confront the causes. In this dynamic study, Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction and develops a model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory. Through close-readings of important texts, including those by Flagg, Glaspell, Hong-Kington, Hurston, Rawlings, Walker, this analysis broadens our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights and joins the discussion about gender oppression and traditional identity politics.

Recenzje

"In this wide-ranging, ambitious study of American women's writing, Alison Graham-Bertolini offers accessibly written, clearly argued, and often perceptive readings of a diverse range of texts. Her analyses shed light on an important and underexamined subject: the figure of the vigilante woman in modern American literature. ... this is a consistently engaging contribution to scholarship that ranges across twentieth-century American literature in stimulating and memorable ways." (Ruth Maxey, Contemporary Women's Writing, Vol. 10 (2), July, 2016)

Spis treści

PART I: GREAT VENGEANCE AND FURIOUS ANGER: THE FEMALE AVENGER PART II: WOMEN WARRIORS AND WOMEN WITH WEAPONS PART III: THE WOMAN WHO SNAPS, THE WOMAN WHO KILLS PART IV: THE FEMALE BANDIT/OUTLAW

O autorze

ALISON GRAHAM-BERTOLINI has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Louisiana State University and a Master's degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her writing and research focus on issues in contemporary American Literature, Ethnic Literature, and Women's Studies. She has recently published articles in the Journal of Feminist Media Studies, The Southern Quarterly, and the edited collection American Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas.