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Feminist engagements : forays into American literature and culture
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ISBN: 9780230615946 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

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White women in racialized spaces
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ISBN: 079148808X 9780791488089 9780791454787 0791454789 9780791454770 0791454770 0791454789 Year: 2002 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.


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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing
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ISBN: 081427160X 0814206182 Year: 2009 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

The artistry of anger
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ISBN: 0807860190 9780807860199 0807826820 9780807826829 0807853488 9780807853481 9798890868244 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press

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In this study, Linda M. Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. She explores how black and white 19th-century women writers defined, expressed and dramatized anger.

Entitled to the pedestal
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ISBN: 1587295296 1587297329 9781587297328 9781587295294 Year: 2007 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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Nghana Lewis offers a close reading of the works and private correspondences, essays, and lectures of five southern white women writers: Julia Peterkin, Gwen Bristow, Caroline Gordon, Willa Cather, and Lillian Smith. At the core of this work is a sophisticated reexamination of the myth of southern white womanhood.

Bound and determined : captivity, culture-crossing, and white womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst
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ISBN: 0226096548 Year: 1996 Volume: *30 Publisher: Chicago London : University of Chicago Press,

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In Bound and Determined, Christopher Castiglia gives shape for the first time to a tradition of American women's captivity narrative that ranges across three centuries, from Puritan colonist Mary Rowlandson's abduction by Narragansett Indians to Patty Hearst's kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Examining more than sixty accounts by women captives, as well as novels ranging from Susanna Rowson's eighteenth-century classic Rueben and Rachel to today's mass-market romances, Castiglia investigates paradoxes central to the genre. In captivity, women often find freedom from stereotypical roles as helpless, dependent, sexually vulnerable, and xenophobic. In their condemnations of their non-white captors, they defy assumptions about race that undergird their own societies. Castiglia questions critical conceptions of captivity stories as primarily an appeal to racism and misogyny, and instead finds in them an appeal of a much different nature: as all-too-rare stories of imaginative challenges to rigid gender roles and racial ideologies. Whether the women of these stories resist or escape captivity, endure until they are released, or eventually choose to live among their captors, they end up with the power to be critical of both cultures. Castiglia shows that these compelling narratives, with their boundary crossings and persistent explorations of cultural divisions and differences, have significant implications for current critical investigations into the construction of gender, race, and nation.

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Abduction in literature --- Beschavingsconflict in de literatuur --- Blanke vrouwen in de literatuur --- Conflit de civilisations dans la littérature --- Culture conflict in literature --- Cultuurconflict in de literatuur --- Emprisonnement dans la littérature --- Enlèvement de mineurs dans la littérature --- Femmes blanches dans la littérature --- Imprisonment in literature --- Indianen van Noord-Amerika in de literatuur --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indiens de l'Amérique du Nord dans la littérature --- Ontvoering in de literatuur --- Opsluiting in de literatuur --- Race relations in literature --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- White women in literature --- American prose literature --- Literature and anthropology --- Indians in literature. --- Culture conflict in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Imprisonment in literature. --- Women, White, in literature. --- Abduction in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Rowlandson, Mary White, --- Hearst, Patricia, --- Captivity, 1676. --- History and criticism --- United States --- History --- Women and literature --- Prose américaine --- Littérature et anthropologie --- Femme et littérature --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Relations interethniques --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- États-Unis --- Dans la littérature --- Prose américaine --- Littérature et anthropologie --- Femme et littérature --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Dans la littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- États-Unis

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