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Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple is a tale of personal empowerment which opens with a protagonist Celie who is at the bottom of America's social caste. A poor, black, ugly and uneducated female in the America's Jim Crow South in the first half of the 20th century, she is the victim of constant rape, violence and misogynistic verbal abuse. Celie cannot conceive of an escape from her present condition, and so she learns to be passive and unemotional. But The Color Purple eventually demonstrates how Celie learns to fight back and how she discovers her true sexuality and her unique voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is an empowered, financially-independent entrepreneur/landowner, one who speaks her mind and realizes the desirability of black femaleness while creating a safe space for herself and those she loves. Through a journey of literary criticism, Dialogue: Alice Walker's The Color Purple follows Celie's transformation from victim to hero. Each scholarly essay becomes a step of the journey that paves the way for the development of self and sexual awareness, the beginnings of religious transformation and the creation of nurturing places like home and community.
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In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Voyage Out borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins's work.Hite presents and develops the concept of narrative tone as a means to enrich and complicate our readings of Woolf's modernist novels. In Woolf's Ambiguities, she argues that the greatest formal innovation in Woolf's fiction is the muting, complicating, or effacing of textual pointers guiding how readers feel and make ethical judgments about characters and events. Much of Woolf's narrative prose, Hite proposes, thus refrains from endorsing a single position, not only adding value ambiguity to the cognitive ambiguity associated with modernist fiction generally, but explicitly rejecting the polemical intent of feminist novelists in the generation preceding her own. Hite also points out that Woolf reconsidered her rejection of polemical fiction later in her career. In the unfinished draft of her "essay-novel" The Pargiters, Woolf created a brilliant new narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments.
English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Rhys, Jean --- Technique --- Lessing, Doris May --- Walker, Alice --- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor --- Atwood, Margaret, --- Lessing, Doris, --- Walker, Alice, --- Technique. --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Literature: history & criticism
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African American women --- Intellectual life --- Women [Black ] --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Wheatley, Phillis --- Johnson, Amelia E. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins --- Petry, Ann Lane --- Walker, Alice, 1944 --- -Kennedy, Florynce --- Jordan, June Meyer --- Tate, Merze --- Women, Black --- Black women --- Women, Negro --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women --- Intellectual life.
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Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by contemporary American writers published between 1912 and 1988. The novels discussed, all featuring women letter writers, include: Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies, John Barth's LETTERS, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, John Updike's S., Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs, Upton Sinclair's Another Pamela
Letters in literature. --- Criticism --- Epistolary fiction, American --- American fiction --- American epistolary fiction --- Letters as a theme in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- Letters in literature --- Epistolary fiction [American ] --- Smith, Lee --- Barth, John --- Walker, Alice --- Updike, John --- Webster, Jean --- Sinclair, Upton Beall --- Castillo, Ana
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a pow
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Moments of mathematical reckoning pervade twentieth-century southern literature by authors including William Faulkner, Anita Loos, William Attaway, and Dorothy Allison, revealing a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity.
Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Ego (Psychology) in literature. --- Narcissism in literature. --- Fetishism in literature. --- Numbers in literature. --- Value --- Value in literature. --- American literature --- Standard of value --- Cost --- Economics --- Exchange --- Wealth --- Prices --- Supply and demand --- Self-love in literature --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Southern States --- In literature. --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Numbers in literature --- Fetishism in literature --- Narcissism in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Southern States in literature --- Ego (Psychology) in literature --- Tate, Allen --- Criticism and interpretation --- Percy, William Alexander --- Johnson, James Weldon --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Newman, Frances --- Loos, Anita --- Porter, Katherine Anne --- Allison, Dorothy --- Walker, Alice, 1944 --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Percy, Walker --- Owens, Louis --- Cao, Lan --- Baldwin, James --- Bambara, Toni Cade --- Awiakta, Marilou --- Jones, Tayari
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"The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960's. The works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave"--
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. --- Books and reading --- Publishers and publishing --- Second-wave feminism --- Women --- Feminism and literature --- American literature --- Feminism --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History --- Intellectual life --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- 028-055.2 --- 094:396 --- 396 <73> --- 82:396 --- 655.4 <73> --- 396 "19" --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers --- Vrouwelijke lezers --- 396 "19" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 094:396 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Feminisme. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Feminisme. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--Verenigde Staten van Amerika (VS) --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- History and criticism --- United States --- 20th century --- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor --- Jong, Erica --- Harris, Bertha --- Walker, Alice --- Paretsky, Sara --- Chambers, Jane --- Criticism and interpretation --- Roiphe, Anne
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