Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing [electronic resource] /
Laflen, A.author.
Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality.
Introduction: What's (still) wrong with images of women? -- Coming-of-age with mass media -- (re)visualizing history in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye -- Transforming culture and consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason's In country -- Witnessing visual manipulation -- There were signs and I missed them: reading beneath the image in Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction -- The politics of vanishing: bearing witness to the wounded family in Louise Erdrich's Shadow tag -- Spectatorship in an expanded field of vision -- Against visual objectivity in Gish Jen's Birthmates and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The ultrasound -- Queering spectatorship in Alison Bechdel's Fun home -- Conclusion: Confronting visuality in the digital age.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Arts.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Gender Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Arts.
Literary History.