Modeling minority women
Subtitle: heroines in African and Asian American fiction
By: Reshmi J. Hebbar.
Series: Studies in Asian Americans; Asian Americans.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Minority women -- United States -- Intellectual life; African American women -- Intellectual life; Asian American women -- Intellectual life; Women and literature -- United States; African American women in literature; Asian American women in literature; Minority women in literature; Heroines in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: Someday my prince will come : ambivalent romance and ethnicity in the fiction of the Eaton sisters; title: The fairest of them all : ethnicity, heroines, and the objectifying lens; title: Cinderella's understudies : marginality, ethnicity, and the negotiated spaces of heroine desire; title: Little princesses : a new generation of ethnic, adolescent heroines.