Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature : Thresholds in Women's Writing / edited by Kristin J. Jacobson, Kristin Allukian, Rickie-Ann Legleitner, Leslie Allison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobson, Kristin J., Editor.

Allukian, Kristin., Editor.

Legleitner, Rickie-Ann., Editor.

Allison, Leslie., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

America--Literatures.

America.

Literary History.

North American Literature.

Local Subjects:

Literary History.

North American Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women's writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables. The collection's introduction, three unit introductions, fourteen individual essays, and afterward facilitate a process of encounters, engagements, and conversations within, between, among, and across the rich polyphony that constitutes the creative acts of American women writers. The contributors offer fresh perspectives on canonical writers as well as introduce readers to new authors. As a whole, the collection demonstrates American women's writing is "threshold writing," or writing that occupies a liminal, hybrid space that both delimits borders and offersenticing openings.

Contents:

Introduction: Threshold Thinking, Rita Bode and Kristin J. Jacobson

Section I Early American Thresholds Introduction: Early American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act, Kristin Allukian

'Sweet Cement:' Occasioning Bathsheba Bowers' An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgment, Nicholas K. Mohlmann

Beyond 'The Bars': Lucy Terry Prince and the Margins of the Colonial Landscape, Ann A. Huse

The Liminal Time of Friendship: Narrative Dely in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, Molly Ball

'We cannot be indifferent': Native Americans and the Students of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies, Gregory D. Specter

Section II Nineteenth Century Thresholds Introduction: Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-century Women's Writing, Rickie-Ann Legleitner

Changing is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Olivier

Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Fiction, Michelle Gaffner Wood

Contesting Sentimentalism: Animal-Human Bonds and Boundaries in Grace Greenwood's History of My Pets, Kerstin Rudolph

'The Third Sex': Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces, Margaret Jay Jessee

'Costume de ghost': Liminality in Grace King's Balcony Stories, Stephanie Durrans

Section III Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First-Century Thresholds Introduction: A Fragile Optimism: Writing Liminality and Hybridity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Leslie Allison

La mujer en llamas: Legal Storytelling in Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe, Sandra Ruiz

States of Exception and Arab American Women's Poetry After 9/11: Liminality and Community in Suheir Hammad's 'first writing since' and D.H. Melhem's 'September 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Aftermath', Birgit Spengler

Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell's Graphic Auto-Fiction, Shiamin Kwa

Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers at the Margins, Beth Widmaier Capo

Afterword: Beyond Thresholds: Suggestions for Further Research and Teaching Resources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319738512

3319738518