Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era /

Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era /

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"Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how these authors articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social cla...

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Main Author: Rich, Charlotte J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2009.
Subjects:
American fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Feminist literature > History and criticism.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America
  • Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights
  • From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence
  • A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman
  • "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood
  • Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska
  • Conclusion.

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