Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction [electronic resource] /
Graham-Bertolini, A.author.
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
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Cover; Seriespage; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction 1; Terminology; Conclusions; Chapter One: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger: The Female Avenger; Zora Neale Husrton's "Sweat" (1926); Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's "Gal Young 'Un" (1932); Shirley Ann Grau's The Keepers of the House (1964); Conclusions; Chapter Two: Women Warriors and Women with Weapons; Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memories Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts (1975); Rita Mae Brown's High Hearts (1986); William Faulkner's Warrior Woman In The Unvanquished (1934); Conclusions
Chapter Three: The Woman Who Snaps, The Woman Who KillsToni Morrison's Beloved (1987); Bharati Mukherjee's Wife (1975): Rewriting The Marriage/Adultery Plot; Susan Glaspell's "A Jury Of Her Peers" (1917); Alice Walker's "How Did I Get Away With Killing One Of The Biggest Lawyers In The State? It Was Easy" (1982); Conclusions; Chapter Four: The Female Bandit/Outlaw; June Arnold's Sister Gin (1975); Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (1987); William Faulkner's Female Bandit in the Unvanquished (1934); Conclusions; Conclusions; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-173) and index.
Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.