1st Edition
Women on the Edge Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women
Edited By Corinne H. Dale
Copyright 1999
188 Pages
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This collection of essays explores the intertwining social conditions of ethnicity and gender as they are represented in short stories by contemporary American women. The introduction to the collection explains the theoretical understanding of gender and ethnicity as social constructions that provide a context for individual experience. The collection brings together analyses of short stories... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments * Introduction: Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women, Corinne H. Dale and J.H.E. Paine * (Dis) Continuous Narrative: The Articulation of a Chicana Feminist Voice in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, Deborah L. Madsen * Beyond Otherness: Negotiated Identities and Viramontes' The Cariboo Cafe, Marta Caminero-Santangelo * Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing: Making More Room for Puerto Rican Womanhood, Nancy L. Chick * Flight and Arrival: A Study of Padma Hejmadi's Short Story, Weather Report, Lakshmi Holmstrsm * Subversive Extravagance: Women in Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and The Legend of Miss Sasagawara, Veronica C. Wang * Afrekete Rising: Two Coming-out Stories by African American Lesbians: Pat Suncircle's A Day's Growth and Audre Lorde's The Beginning, M. Charlene Ball * Race/[Gender]: Toni Morrison's Recitatif, David Goldstein-Shirley * Playing in the Light: White Girls Dreaming in Eudora Welty's Moon Lake, Elaine OrrM * Ruth's Journey into the Fields: Feminism in Ozick's The Pagan Rabbi, Kathy Rugoff * Reconstructing the Native American Woman: Louise Erdrich's Fleur, Corinne H. Dale
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Dale, Corinne H.
