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White women in literature --- Minority women in literature --- Malkiel, Theresa Serber

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Canadian literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- 820 <71> --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Ethnicity in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Minority women in literature --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Écrivains asiatiques --- Roman canadien de langue anglaise --- Canada --- Femmes écrivains

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This discusses the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood. Organized thematically, with chapters focusing on central questions of form, canonized texts are paired with less well-known works.

American prose literature --- Autobiographical fiction, American --- Women and literature --- Literature --- American literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History. --- Autobiography --- Minority women in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Minorities in literature. --- Literary form. --- Women authors.

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This book, first published in 2000, explores the intersections of race, gender and gay identities in writings by contemporary American lesbians of colour in order to show how this subject is sometimes ignored, sometimes brutalised and is very rarely able to survive on her own terms by constructing her own identity acts of cultural revision. The author places the lesbian of colour in the context of current identity theories showing the ever-present blind spots within current theoretical paradigms, she then reads a variety of writings by lesbians of colour describing the possibilities that exist for these subjects in textual and social realities. The author shows the varied communities that threaten the existence of this subject, as well as the limits that dictate the subject's ability to create her self. By bridging Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Gloria Anzaldua's New Mestiza she describes how lesbians of colour can survive numerous sites of hostility by constructing a positive identity within her home community through revising cultural traditions and history. After considering the power of these acts of revision, the author calls for the empowered performance of the mestiza state - the state of contradiction wherein the lesbian of colour finds herself. This book is the first to analyse creative and theoretical works by African American, Asian American, Latina and Native American communities and writers through the lens of lesbian studies. Authors include recognised figures such as Audre Lorde, Ana Castillo and Paula Gunn Allen, as well as lesser known authors like Best Brant, Natashia Lopez and Willyce Kim. It provides a corrective to Butler's empowering but essentially white vision of performing identity, so that lesbians of colour can claim their identities and remain tied to their own cultural traditions. Ultimately, the author asks for a reconsideration of the value of identity studies that articulate monolithic identities and whose analyses perpetuate what they seek to disrupt.

Lesbians' writings, American --- Feminism and literature --- American literature --- Women and literature --- Minority women --- Lesbians --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Lesbians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Minority authors --- Women authors --- Intellectual life.

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This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.

American fiction --- Minority women --- African American women --- Asian American women --- Women and literature --- African American women in literature. --- Asian American women in literature. --- Minority women in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Women in literature. --- American literature --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Women minorities --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Heroines --- Afro-American women in literature --- Literature --- Women, Asian American --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Intellectual life --- African American women in literature --- Minority women in literature --- Heroines in literature --- Women in literature --- Asian American women in literature