The Girl - Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)

The image of The Girl in contemporary fiction by women today stands in stark contrast to configurations of girlhood in earlier fiction. No longer banished to the realms of the Victorian "marriage or death" plots, girls in contemporary fiction embrace new challenges and freedoms while still struggling with plots centered on their bodies, societal limitations, and the price for freedom and escape. This unique collection tackles the contemporary forces at work on both the girls in fiction created by women and the writers themselves. The Girl investigates the legacies of expectation, competing cultural ideologies, and multiplicities of growing up female at the end of the 20th century as portrayed in contemporary fiction by women. The essayists show how new fictions of The Girl provide access to a constellation of themes and narrative patterns--including race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, female subjectivity, and nationalism--in new ways, while also continuing to envision girlhood in relation to such themes as love, separation from the mother, and maternal loss or overprotection. The first collection of critical essays to examine the portrayal of girls in contemporary women’s fiction within the context of recent sociological and psychological analyses of girls, The Girl proposes that contemporary stories of girlhood constitute a new lens for literary and cultural study. Examining the work of authors such as Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, Jamaica Kincaid, and Joyce Carol Oates for their revelations and representations in regard to girlhood, these essays speak to, complement, and contest one another in a compelling interrogation of what it means to grow up female at the end of the millennium.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1998
First published:	1998
Editors:	Ruth O. Saxton
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	178
Edition:	1998 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-17353-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-312-17353-9
Barcode:	9780312173531

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