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Community Boundaries and Border Crossings : Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transforming Literary StudiesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498539494
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Community Boundaries and Border CrossingsDDC classification:
  • 809.89287
LOC classification:
  • PN479C666 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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