| Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel Contributor(s): Richard, Thelma J. Y. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0313296766 ISBN-13: 9780313296765 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 813.509 |
| LCCN: 95040027 |
| Lexile Measure: 1380 |
| Series: Contributions in Women's Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.33" W x 9.57" (1.11 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study presents an exciting new approach to novels that combine the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life. Women are the prototypical Other in patriarchal societies, as can be seen in the first four novelists--Eudora Welty, Gloria Naylor, Margaret Atwood, and Doris Lessing--who are primarily known as realists but who disrupt our expectations to shift our perspective. Moreover, Shinn analyzes how Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Toni Cade Bambara write out of their consciousness as hyphenated Americans about what is necessary to achieve an integrated self and an integrated society. Shinn explores how these women have expanded not only the language but the very structure of their novels and have transformed the novelistic tradition. |