Transcending the new woman
Subtitle: multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era
By: Charlotte J. Rich.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780826218261
Subjects: American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Feminism in literature
Description: "Examines multiethnic women writers' responses to the ideal of the New Woman in America at the dawn of the twentieth century, opening up a world of literary texts that lend new insight, revealing how these authors articulated the contradictions of the American New Woman, and how social class, race, or ethnicity impacted women's experiences"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the new woman and progressive America; title: Suffragist or "squaw"? S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights; title: From race women to an erased woman: Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence; title: A view from the border: Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman; title: "The highly original country of the Yanquis": María Cristina Mena and American womanhood; title: Escaping the "Torah-made world": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska; title: Conclusion.