The girl : constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women / edited by Ruth O. Saxton.

The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the twentieth century as portrayed in contemporary fictions by women, tackling the forces at work on both the fictional girls and the writers themselves. The first...

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Other Authors: Saxton, Ruth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ruth O. Saxton
  • Where is she going, where are we going, at century's end : the girl as site of cultural conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's "The model" / Brenda Daly
  • Self-possession, dolls, Beatlemania, loss : telling the girl's own story / Gina Hausknecht
  • The battleground of the adolescent girl's body / Brenda Boudreau
  • When the back door is closed and the front yard is dangerous : the space of girlhood in Toni Morrison's fiction / Deborah Cadman
  • Dizzying possibilities, plots and endings : girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris beach / Elinor Ann Walker
  • "I ain't no FRIGGIN LITTLE WIMP" : the girl "I" narrator in contemporary fiction / Renee R. Curry
  • Coming-of-age in the snare of history : Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother / Diane Simmons
  • Subversive storytelling : the construction of lesbian girlhood through fantasy and fairy tale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit / Isabel C. Anievas Gamallo
  • But that was in another country : girlhood and the contemporary "coming to America" narrative / Rosemary Marangoly George.