ISBN:
0312296010
,
0312296029
,
9780230607323
,
9780312296018
,
9780312296025
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 205 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Signs of race
Parallel Title:
Print version Women & Others : Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire
DDC:
305.488
Keywords:
Sex role in literature
;
Women, Black
;
Race in literature
;
Women in literature
;
Women, Black, in literature
;
Sex role
Abstract:
The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, history, and contemporary culture generally
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Who Is the Other Woman? An Introduction; Part I: Literatures; 1 Miscegenation as Consolation in George Colman's Inkle and Yarico; 2 Fear of Family, Fear of Self: Black Southern "Othering" in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits; 3 Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Same-Sex Relations in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor; 4 Postmodernism, Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, and the Construction of the Black/Woman of Color as Primal Other; Part II: Histories
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Memsahib Myth: Englishwomen in Colonial India6 Race, Gender, and Leadership: (En)Countering Discourses that Devalue African American Women as Leaders; 7 Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the American Christian Right; 8 The Future of Feminism: What Other Way to Speak?; List of Abbreviations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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