Lillvis, Kristen. <br/><br/>
Community Boundaries and Border Crossings :  Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (248 pages) 
 - Transforming Literary Studies .
 - Transforming Literary Studies .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: Deconstructing Boundaries -- 1 Language, Matter, Movement -- 2 Subjectivity and Solidarity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- 3 Border Transgression, Adolescent Transition, and the Quest for Justice in Louise Erdrich's The Round House -- II: Intra-Spaces and Liminality -- 4 The Modernist Aesthetic and the Immigrant -- 5 Life between Cultures -- 6 Zora Neale Hurston's Differential Consciousness -- 7 Oppositional Identities and the Mestiz@ Writer/Scholar -- III: Diaspora and Disruption -- 8 "Take plight's sure paradoxes with you. Jump." -- 9 Whose Recognition? Authenticity, Agency, and Responsibility in Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field -- 10 Palestinian Communities within the Shifting Colonial Borders of Israel -- 11 Border Crossing in British Anglophone Arab Women's Narratives -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index -- About the Contributors. 
<br/><br/> Through the overarching interconnected themes of community boundaries and border crossings, this collection explores issues of diaspora, trans-nationality, cultural hybridity, home, and identity that are central to ethnic women writers. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781498539494 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature - Minority authors - History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN479C666 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.89287