Writing the Polish American woman in postwar ethnic fiction / Grażyna J. Kozaczka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozaczka, Grażyna J., 1955- author.

Series:

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Women in literature.

Polish Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Proporcionado por el editor: "Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland. Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women's efforts to construct gendered and classed ethnicity. Focusing predominantly on work by North American born and immigrant authors that represents the Polish American Catholic tradition, Grażyna J. Kozaczka puts texts in conversation with other American ethnic literatures. She positions ethnic gender construction and performance at an intersection of social class, race, and sex. She explores the marginalization of ethnic female characters in terms of migration studies, theories of whiteness, and the history of feminist discourse. Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction tells the complex story of how Polish American women writers have shown a strong awareness of their oppression and sought empowerment through resistive and transgressive behaviors."

Contents:

Introduction. Polish American women : a cultural and literary construct

Faces of resistance : Monica Krawczyk's immigrant women

At midcentury : Polish Americans writing their identity

Suzanne Strempek Shea's gendered ethnicity in the 1970s and 1980s

Leslie Pietrzyk and Ellen Slezak constructing ethnic motherhood

Tragic motherhood in Danuta Mostwin's "Jocasta"

Transgressive sexuality in Polish American fiction of the last twenty-five years

(Im)migrant homelands in the early twenty-first century

Experiments in ethnicity : the "solidarity" 1.5 generation

Fifty years of girling : models of Polish American femininity in young adult literature

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-261) and index.

ISBN:

9780821446447

0821446444

OCLC:

1138875715