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Reforming fictions : Native, African, and Jewish American women's literature and journalism in the progressive era / Carol J. Batker.
LIBRA PS366.S62 B38 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Batker, Carol J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Political and social views.
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon.
- American prose literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Social problems.
- History.
- Women in journalism.
- American prose literature--Minority authors.
- Political and social views.
- United States.
- Women in journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Social problems--United States--History--20th century.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- Women social reformers--United States.
- Women social reformers.
- Physical Description:
- x, 202 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- A fresh, multicultural reading of the work of women writers of the Progressive era that places their fiction in the context of their reform journalism and political activism.
- Contents:
- 1. "Her Rightful Place in the New Scheme of Things": Native American Women's Journalism in the Dawes Era 15
- 2. "'Wantin' to Wear th' Breeches and Boss th' Hull Shebang'": Reservations and Romance in Mourning Dove's Cogewea 37
- 3. "The Democracy for Which We Have Paid": Jessie Fauset and World War I Controversies in the African American Press 53
- 4. "An 'Honest-to-God' American": Patriotism, Foreignness, and Domesticity in Jessie Fauset's Fiction 71
- 5. "Why Should You Ask for Ease?": Jewish Women's Journalism in the English-Language Press 89
- 6. "Mingling with Her People in Their Ghetto": Immigrant Aid and the New Woman in Jewish Women's Fiction 108.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231118503
- 0231118511
- OCLC:
- 43060601
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