Rich, Charlotte J.
Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / [electronic resource] : Charlotte J. Rich. - Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2009. - viii, 230 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-222) and index.
Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights -- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence -- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman -- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : Mar�ia Cristina Mena and American womanhood -- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion.
"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.
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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Feminist literature--History and criticism.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / R55 2009eb
810.9/928709041
Transcending the new woman multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / [electronic resource] : Charlotte J. Rich. - Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2009. - viii, 230 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-222) and index.
Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America -- Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights -- From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence -- A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman -- "The highly original country of the Yanquis" : Mar�ia Cristina Mena and American womanhood -- Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska -- Conclusion.
"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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Feminist literature--History and criticism.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Electronic books.
PS153.M56 / R55 2009eb
810.9/928709041