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--Women authors--History and criticism.

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

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

Women and literature.

Minorities in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

Feminism in literature.

Feminist literature--History and criticism.

Feminist literature.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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" : Maria Cristina Mena and American womanhood

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

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8262-6663-0

OCLC:

647875387