Opening Acts : Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction.

"In the beginning there was. the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power...

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Main Author: Romagnolo, Catherine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2015.
Series:Frontiers of narrative.
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505 0 |a Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 No Place for Her Individual Adventure; 2 Waves of Beginnings; 3 Moving in Lofty Spirals; 4 Circling the History of Slavery; 5 Swan Feathers and Coca-Cola; 6 Bordering Yolanda García; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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