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Transcending the new woman [electronic resource] : multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / Charlotte J. Rich.

By: Rich, Charlotte J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2009Description: viii, 230 p.Subject(s): American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism | American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Minorities in literature | Ethnicity in literature | Feminism in literature | Feminist literature -- History and criticism | Progressivism (United States politics)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/928709041 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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.

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