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Unsettling the Bildungsroman
Stella Bolaki
其他書名
Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction
出版
Rodopi
, 2011
主題
History / General
History / Social History
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
ISBN
9789401200677
940120067X
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=b3WAUDndeJkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
What kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke? How can we account for the continuing hold of the
Bildungsroman
as a model of analysis?
Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction
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. Examining closely the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde, the chapters foreground processes of constructing an alternative “art of living” which challenges the
Bildungsroman
’s drive for either assimilation or ethnic homogeneity and pushes for new configurations of ethnic and American female identity. Drawing on feminist/gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, translation theory, queer theory, and disability studies, the book provides a theoretically engaged rethinking of the
Bildungsroman
’s form and function. Addressing questions of aesthetics and politics, freedom and belonging, betrayal and responsibility, and tracing the
Bildungsroman
’s links with life-writing forms such as immigrant narrative, mother-daughter story, biomythography, and illness narrative, the study outlines the various ways in which the novel of individual development becomes an appropriate site for the negotiation of several enduring and contentious tensions in ethnic American writing. Of potential interest to scholars of American literature, but also ethnic, feminist and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature and culture, the book demonstrates the
Bildungsroman
’s ongoing relevance and expanded capacity of representation in an ethnic American and postcolonial context.