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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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The Other Side of the Story : Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives / by Hite, Molly, 1947-

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The New Woman and the Empire / by Jusová, Iveta, 1966-

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Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History : Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature /

Table of Contents: “…Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette -- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke -- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. …”
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