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Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women
出版Palgrave Macmillan US, 1998-08-14
主題Social Science / Gender StudiesLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / GeneralFiction / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturySocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN03121735399780312173531
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dEqRQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian 'marriage or death' plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns - including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, female subjectivity, and nationalism - in new ways, while also continuing to envision girlhood in relation to such themes as love, separation from the mother, and maternal loss or overprotection.