African American Lesbian
Asian Diaspora
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Chambered Nautilus
Chicana Feminist
Chicana Subject
Chicana Writer
Chippewa Woman
comparative gender analysis
David Goldstein-Shirley
Deborah L. Madsen
Discontinuous Narrative
Elaine Orr
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ethnic identities
ethnic minority narratives
feminist literary criticism
gender struggles
Guilty Denial
Hero's Journey
Independent Woman
intersectional analysis of short stories
intersectionality studies
Japanese American Women
Kathy Rugoff
La Llorona
Lakshmi HolmstrM
Lesbian Hero
M. Charlene Ball
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Meat Locker
Middle Class White Girl
Moon Lake
Mukherjee's Fiction
multicultural American literature
Nancy L. Chick
Pagan Rabbi
Rabbi's Wife
Seventeen Syllables
sexual preference
Silent Dancing
social construction theory
Veronica C. Wang
War Relocation Center
Wedding Flowers
women's oppression
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138864429
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This collection of essays explores the intertwining social conditions of ethnicity and gender as they are represented in short stories by contemporary American women. The introduction to the collection explains the theoretical understanding of gender and ethnicity as social constructions that provide a context for individual experience. The collection brings together analyses of short stories that focus on major ethnic cultures in the United States: Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Japanese American, Asian American, African American, Jewish American, white Protestant American, and Native American. Each essay testifies to the struggles of women within patriarchal cultures in America, and each explores how different ethnic identities set the terms of these gender struggles. The essays also reveal the complications of other important social issues, such as class, sexual preference, and religion. Individually, each essay contributes a significant new analysis of a short story or collection by an important contemporary American writer. Together, the essays indicate the complexity and significance of this cultural approach to women's fiction, demonstrate the critical theories that are currently developing in the fields of gender and ethnic studies, and suggest that neither ethnicity nor gender can legitimately be considered alone.
