Constructing the literary self
Subtitle: race and gender in twentieth-century literature
By: edited by Patsy J. Daniels
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781443845304
Subjects: Self in literature; Race in literature; Gender identity in literature; Modern Literature; History and criticism
Description: Construction of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions. This volume is about that kind of oppression and strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and Family and the Self --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface --; title: Introduction -- -- Part I.; title: Race, gender, and the self:; title: Empathy and metaphor : the critique and embrace of essentialist thought in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge  -- Helen F. Maxson.; title: Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter : "strange fruit" in The fig tree  -- Patsy J. Daniels.; title: Shakespeare's Othello : postmodern paradigm shifts and the American "other"  -- Everett G. Neasman.; title: The walls are crumbling down : houses as death metaphors in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and To the lighthouse  -- Emily Clark -- Part II.; title: Assimilation and the self:; title: Disidenitfication with the homogenizing and commodifying narratives of ethnicity in Han Ong's Fixer Chao  -- Youngsuk Chae.; title: Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast jazz, and the politics of identity formation  -- Shawn P. Holliday -- Part III.; title: Black males and the self:; title: Appropriate Blackness : Oreo dreams deferred in Charles Fuller's A soldier's play  -- Claude Wilkinson.; title: "A friend of my mind" : rhetorical strategies of Black male subjectivity in Beloved  -- Aaron N. Oforlea -- Part IV.; title: Female sexuality and the self:; title: "The best stuff God did" : the rhetoric of same sex intimacy and egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker's The color purple and Ann Allen Shockley's Say Jesus and come to me  -- Tara Tuttle.; title: E(race)ing female sexuality in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird  -- Cameron E. Williams -- Part V.; title: The family and the self:; title: Layers of identity formation in Ana Castillo's Peel my love like an onion  -- Lucinda Channon.; title: Division of maternal effort in Anne Enright's The gathering  -- Candis P. Pizzetta.; title: When ethnicity, history, and parenting collide : mothering understood in Amy Tan's The kichen god's wife and Christina García's Dreaming in Cuban  -- Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels; title: Contributors --; title: Index.