Since the colonial days, American women have traveled, migrated,
and relocated, always faced with the challenge of reconstructing
their homes for themselves and their families. "Women, America, and
Movement" offers a journey through largely unexplored
territory--the experiences of migrating American women. These
narratives, both real and imagined, represent a range of personal
and critical perspectives; some of the women describe their travels
as expansive and freeing, while others relate the dreadful costs
and sacrifices of relocating.
Despite the range of essays featured in this study, the writings
all coalesce around the issues of politics, poetry, and self-
identity described by Adrienne Rich as the elements of the
"politics of location," treated here as the politics of
"re"location. The narratives featured in this book explore the
impact of race, class, and sexual economics on migratory women,
their self-identity, and their roles in family and social life.
These issues demonstrate that in addition to geographic place,
ideology is itself a space to be traversed.
By examining the writings of such women as Louise Erdrich, Zora
Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein, the essayists included in this
volume offer a variety of experiences. The book confronts such
issues as racist politicking against Native Americans, African
Americans, and Asian immigrants; sexist attitudes that limit women
to the roles of wife, mother, and sexual object; and exploitation
of migrants from Appalachia and of women newly arrived in
America.
These essays also delve into the writings themselves by looking
at what happens to narrative structure as authors or their
characters cross geographic boundaries. The reader sees how women
writers negotiate relocation in their texts and how the written
word becomes a place where one finds oneself.
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