Title Modeling minority women : heroines in African and Asian American fiction / Reshmi J. Hebbar

Published New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 152 pages) Series Studies in Asian Americans Asian Americans. Contents Someday my prince will come : ambivalent romance and ethnicity in the fiction of the Eaton sisters -- The fairest of them all : ethnicity, heroines, and the objectifying lens -- Cinderella's understudies : marginality, ethnicity, and the negotiated spaces of heroine desire -- Little princesses : a new generation of ethnic, adolescent heroines Summary This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-148) and index Notes English Print version record Subject American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Minority women -- United States -- Intellectual life African American women -- Intellectual life Asian American women -- Intellectual life Women and literature -- United States African American women in literature. Asian American women in literature. Minority women in literature. Heroines in literature. Women in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African American women in literature African American women -- Intellectual life American fiction -- African American authors American fiction -- Asian American authors American fiction -- Women authors Asian American women in literature Asian American women -- Intellectual life Heroines in literature Minority women in literature Women and literature Women in literature Literatur Heldin Motiv Roman américain -- 028118294 -- Histoire et critique. Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique. Littérature américaine -- Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique. Femmes appartenant à des minorités -- États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle. Noires américaines -- Dans la littérature. Américaines d'origine asiatique -- Dans la littérature. Femmes appartenant à des minorités -- Dans la littérature. Héroïnes (littérature) Femmes -- Dans la littérature. United States USA Schwärze Asiaten. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135873400 1135873402 9780203942574 0203942574 1135873410 9781135873417

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