From girl to woman : American women's coming-of-age narratives / by Christy Rishoi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rishoi, Christy, 1958-

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

SUNY series in postmodern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--United States--Biographical methods.

Women's studies.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Social role.

Maturation (Psychology).

Self-realization.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Feminist criticism.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Contents:

1 Identity and the Coming-of-Age Narrative 1

Recreating Womanhood 10

2 Feminism, Autobiography, and Theories of Subjectivity 23

Feminism and the Autobiographical Act 26

Western Theories of Subjectivity 36

Feminist Poststructuralist Revisions of Subjectivity 43

3 Coming of Age in America 47

Historical Accounts of Adolescence 49

Psychological Accounts of Adolescence 54

Literary Accounts of Coming of Age 59

The Coming-of-Age Narrative 64

American Grand Narratives of Coming of Age 66

4 Specifying American Girlhood: Annie Dillard and Anne Moody 75

Specifying the Universal in An American Childhood 76

Hegemonic Inscription of the Body in Coming of Age in Mississippi 91

5 "Lying Contests": Fictional Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction 109

"Lying Contests": Signifying Coming of Age 114

Janie's Ways of Knowing 120

6 "Room for Paradoxes": Creating a Hybrid Identity 133

A "World of Paper Strengths": The Education of Kate Simon 136

Mythology and Narrative in the Creation of Identity: The Woman Warrior 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-190) and index.

ISBN:

0791457214

0791457222

OCLC:

50448117