Elaine Showalter

Sister's Choice

Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by women in the United States? Drawing on a wide range of writers from Margaret Fuller to Alice Walker, Elaine Showalter argues that post-colonial as well as feminist literary theory can help us understand the hybrid, intertextual, and changing forms of American women's writing, and the way that `women's culture' intersects with other cultural forms. Showalter looks closely at three American classics - Little Women, The Awakening, and The House of Mirth - and traces the transformations in such major themes, images, and genres of American women's writing as the American Miranda, the Female Gothic, and the patchwork quilt. Ending with a moving description of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, she shows how the women's tradition is a literary quilt that offers a new map of a changing America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780198123835
• ISBN-10: 0198123833
• Artikelnr.: 21501219

Autorenporträt

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of A Literature of Their Won, and the editor of The New Feminist Criticism.