Transcending the New Woman : multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era / Charlotte J. Rich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rich, Charlotte J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Minority authors.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Feminist literature.

United States.

History.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Feminist literature--History and criticism.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Physical Description:

viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2009]

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.

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" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood

Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

ISBN:

9780826218261

0826218261

OCLC:

227919882