The Resource Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction, Stella Blaki
Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction, Stella Blaki
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- Summary
- Unsettling the Bildungsroman combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (283 pages)
- Contents
-
- I: Female travelling in the West/Indies
- 1. Trauma and the Bildungsroman
- 2. Mobilities in the traditional Bildungsroman
- 3. Locating the postcolonial travelling subject
- 4. Merging with and separating from the mother: bound motion in At the Bottom of the River
- 5. The politics of a silent voice
- 6. Declarations of in(ter)dependence in Lucy
- 7. Locomotive tongues: voice and body in Lucy
- II: "The mestiza way"
- 1. Individualism or communitarianism?
- 2. Mastering "the art of the present": unnatural boundaries and borderlands
- 3. Weaving and unweaving through the vignette
- 4. "Private open spaces": rebilding [sic] the private and the public
- 5. More room to play: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation
- III: "It translated well"
- 1. The promise and the perils of translation
- 2. "Minoritising" translations: the "Japanese Hamlet" and the Asian American Bildungsroman
- 3. Translation and marriage in the Asian American Bildungsroman
- 4. "La belle infidéle": the feminist translator and her dilemmas
- 5. "Impossible conversions": translating the letter or the sense?
- 6. "Dwelling in travel": translating the mother's tongue
- 7. Seduction and the "father's text"
- 8. "Something gives": revisiting relevance
- IV: "In the name of grand asymmetries"
- 1. Imprinting the body: lessons of survival and emotional tattoos
- 2. Against uniformity: transgressive spellings of the body
- 3. From the personal to the political: cancer and its meanings
- A poetics of death: ars moriendi as an art of living
- 5. The art of love: uses of the erotic
- Isbn
- 9786613212795
- Label
- Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction
- Title
- Unsettling the Bildungsroman
- Title remainder
- reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Stella Blaki
- Subject
-
- American fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Minority authors
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Bildungsroman
- Bildungsromans, American -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Bildungsromans, American -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Cisneros, Sandra, 1954-
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Ethnicity
- Ethnizität
- Frauenliteratur
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kincaid, Jamaica, 1949-
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1940-
- Language and culture
- Literature
- Lorde, Audre
- Lorde, Audre, 1934-1992
- USA
- United States
- University of South Alabama
- Women authors, American
- Women in literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Unsettling the Bildungsroman combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bolaki, Stella
- Dewey number
- 810.9
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PS374.B55
- LC item number
- B653 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Critical approaches to ethnic American literature
- Series volume
- no. 4
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Bildungsromans, American
- Bildungsromans, American
- American fiction
- American fiction
- Women in literature
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Lorde, Audre
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Lorde, Audre
- University of South Alabama
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- American literature
- Ethnicity
- Language and culture
- Literature
- Women authors, American
- United States
- Bildungsroman
- Ethnizität
- Frauenliteratur
- USA
- Label
- Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction, Stella Blaki
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I: Female travelling in the West/Indies -- 1. Trauma and the Bildungsroman -- 2. Mobilities in the traditional Bildungsroman -- 3. Locating the postcolonial travelling subject -- 4. Merging with and separating from the mother: bound motion in At the Bottom of the River -- 5. The politics of a silent voice -- 6. Declarations of in(ter)dependence in Lucy -- 7. Locomotive tongues: voice and body in Lucy -- II: "The mestiza way" -- 1. Individualism or communitarianism? -- 2. Mastering "the art of the present": unnatural boundaries and borderlands -- 3. Weaving and unweaving through the vignette -- 4. "Private open spaces": rebilding [sic] the private and the public -- 5. More room to play: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation -- III: "It translated well" -- 1. The promise and the perils of translation -- 2. "Minoritising" translations: the "Japanese Hamlet" and the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 3. Translation and marriage in the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 4. "La belle infidéle": the feminist translator and her dilemmas -- 5. "Impossible conversions": translating the letter or the sense? -- 6. "Dwelling in travel": translating the mother's tongue -- 7. Seduction and the "father's text" -- 8. "Something gives": revisiting relevance -- IV: "In the name of grand asymmetries" -- 1. Imprinting the body: lessons of survival and emotional tattoos -- 2. Against uniformity: transgressive spellings of the body -- 3. From the personal to the political: cancer and its meanings -- A poetics of death: ars moriendi as an art of living -- 5. The art of love: uses of the erotic
- Control code
- 754717185
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (283 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786613212795
- Lccn
- 2011284380
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.1163/9789401200677.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)754717185
- Label
- Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction, Stella Blaki
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- I: Female travelling in the West/Indies -- 1. Trauma and the Bildungsroman -- 2. Mobilities in the traditional Bildungsroman -- 3. Locating the postcolonial travelling subject -- 4. Merging with and separating from the mother: bound motion in At the Bottom of the River -- 5. The politics of a silent voice -- 6. Declarations of in(ter)dependence in Lucy -- 7. Locomotive tongues: voice and body in Lucy -- II: "The mestiza way" -- 1. Individualism or communitarianism? -- 2. Mastering "the art of the present": unnatural boundaries and borderlands -- 3. Weaving and unweaving through the vignette -- 4. "Private open spaces": rebilding [sic] the private and the public -- 5. More room to play: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation -- III: "It translated well" -- 1. The promise and the perils of translation -- 2. "Minoritising" translations: the "Japanese Hamlet" and the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 3. Translation and marriage in the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 4. "La belle infidéle": the feminist translator and her dilemmas -- 5. "Impossible conversions": translating the letter or the sense? -- 6. "Dwelling in travel": translating the mother's tongue -- 7. Seduction and the "father's text" -- 8. "Something gives": revisiting relevance -- IV: "In the name of grand asymmetries" -- 1. Imprinting the body: lessons of survival and emotional tattoos -- 2. Against uniformity: transgressive spellings of the body -- 3. From the personal to the political: cancer and its meanings -- A poetics of death: ars moriendi as an art of living -- 5. The art of love: uses of the erotic
- Control code
- 754717185
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (283 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786613212795
- Lccn
- 2011284380
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 10.1163/9789401200677.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)754717185
Subject
- American fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors | History and criticism
- American fiction -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- Minority authors
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Bildungsroman
- Bildungsromans, American -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Bildungsromans, American -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Cisneros, Sandra, 1954-
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Ethnicity
- Ethnizität
- Frauenliteratur
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kincaid, Jamaica, 1949-
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1940-
- Language and culture
- Literature
- Lorde, Audre
- Lorde, Audre, 1934-1992
- USA
- United States
- University of South Alabama
- Women authors, American
- Women in literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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