Language, gender, and community in late twentieth-century fiction
Subtitle: American voices and American identities
By: Mary Jane Hurst
Series: American literature readings in the 21st century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230110458
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Finding one's place by finding one's voice in Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying and Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy; title: Language and gender in the academic communities of Ann Beattie's Another you and John Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration; title: Balancing self and other through speech and silence in Chang-rae Lee's   Native speaker and Amy Tan's The hundred secret senses; title: Love, destruction, and wounded hearts in the fiction of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris; title: Contours of the future in Denise Chávez's Face of an angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque; title: Twenty-first century reflections on American voices and American identities.