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From girl to woman : American women's coming-of-age narratives / by Christy Rishoi.
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Main Author:
Rishoi, Christy, 1958-
Format:
eBook
Language:
English
Published:
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2003.
Series:
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Subjects:
Women's studies
>
United States
>
Biographical methods.
Women
>
Identity.
Social role.
Maturation (Psychology)
Self-realization.
Autobiography
>
Women authors.
Women and literature
>
United States.
Feminist criticism.
Feminist literary criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
>
Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminist literary criticism
Autobiography
>
Women authors
Feminist criticism
Self-realization
Social role
Women and literature
Women
>
Identity
Women's studies
>
Biographical methods
United States
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Table of Contents:
1. Identity and the coming-of-age narrative
Recreating womanhood
2. Feminism, autobiography, and theories of subjectivity
Feminism and the autobiographical act
Western theories of subjectivity
Feminist poststructuralist revisions to subjectivity
3. Coming of age in America
Historical accounts of adolescence
Psychological accounts of adolescence
Literary accounts of coming age
The coming-of-age-narrative
American grand narratives of coming of age
4. Specifying American girlhood : Annie Dillard and Anne Moody
Specifying the universal in An American childhood
Hegemonic inscription of the body in Coming of age in Mississippi
5. "Lying contests" : fictional autobiography and autobiographical fiction
"Lying contests" : signifying coming of age Janie's ways of knowing
6. "Room for paradoxes" : creating a hybrid identity
A "World of paper strengths" : the education of Kate Simon
Mythology and narrative in the creation of identity: the Woman warrior.
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