Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature Thresholds in Women's Writing /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Jacobson, Kristin J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Allukian, Kristin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Legleitner, Rickie-Ann (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Allison, Leslie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature-History and criticism.; America-Literatures.; Literary History.; North American Literature.

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women's...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Threshold Thinking, Rita Bode and Kristin J. Jacobson
• Section I Early American Thresholds Introduction: Early American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act, Kristin Allukian
• 'Sweet Cement:' Occasioning Bathsheba Bowers' An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgment, Nicholas K. Mohlmann
• Beyond 'The Bars': Lucy Terry Prince and the Margins of the Colonial Landscape, Ann A. Huse
• The Liminal Time of Friendship: Narrative Dely in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, Molly Ball
• 'We cannot be indifferent': Native Americans and the Students of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies, Gregory D. Specter
• Section II Nineteenth Century Thresholds Introduction: Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-century Women's Writing, Rickie-Ann Legleitner
• Changing is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Olivier
• Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Fiction, Michelle Gaffner Wood
• Contesting Sentimentalism: Animal-Human Bonds and Boundaries in Grace Greenwood's History of My Pets, Kerstin Rudolph
• 'The Third Sex': Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces, Margaret Jay Jessee
• 'Costume de ghost': Liminality in Grace King's Balcony Stories, Stephanie Durrans
• Section III Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First-Century Thresholds Introduction: A Fragile Optimism: Writing Liminality and Hybridity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Leslie Allison
• La mujer en llamas: Legal Storytelling in Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe, Sandra Ruiz
• States of Exception and Arab American Women's Poetry After 9/11: Liminality and Community in Suheir Hammad's 'first writing since' and D.H. Melhem's 'September 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Aftermath', Birgit Spengler
• Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell's Graphic Auto-Fiction, Shiamin Kwa
• Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers at the Margins, Beth Widmaier Capo
• Afterword: Beyond Thresholds: Suggestions for Further Research and Teaching Resources.