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Construction of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions. This volume is about that kind of oppression and strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and Family and the Self --
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Constructing the literary self: race and gender in twentieth-century literature
2013, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
in English
1443845302 9781443845304
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Table of Contents
Preface --
Introduction -- -- Part I.
Race, gender, and the self:
Empathy and metaphor : the critique and embrace of essentialist thought in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge -- Helen F. Maxson.
Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter : "strange fruit" in The fig tree -- Patsy J. Daniels.
Shakespeare's Othello : postmodern paradigm shifts and the American "other" -- Everett G. Neasman.
The walls are crumbling down : houses as death metaphors in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and To the lighthouse -- Emily Clark -- Part II.
Assimilation and the self:
Disidenitfication with the homogenizing and commodifying narratives of ethnicity in Han Ong's Fixer Chao -- Youngsuk Chae.
Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast jazz, and the politics of identity formation -- Shawn P. Holliday -- Part III.
Black males and the self:
Appropriate Blackness : Oreo dreams deferred in Charles Fuller's A soldier's play -- Claude Wilkinson.
"A friend of my mind" : rhetorical strategies of Black male subjectivity in Beloved -- Aaron N. Oforlea -- Part IV.
Female sexuality and the self:
"The best stuff God did" : the rhetoric of same sex intimacy and egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker's The color purple and Ann Allen Shockley's Say Jesus and come to me -- Tara Tuttle.
E(race)ing female sexuality in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird -- Cameron E. Williams -- Part V.
The family and the self:
Layers of identity formation in Ana Castillo's Peel my love like an onion -- Lucinda Channon.
Division of maternal effort in Anne Enright's The gathering -- Candis P. Pizzetta.
When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban -- Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels
Contributors --
Index.
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