Title Unsettling the Bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction / Stella Blaki

Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages) Series Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4 Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4. Contents I: Female travelling in the West/Indies -- 1. Trauma and the Bildungsroman -- 2. Mobilities in the traditional Bildungsroman -- 3. Locating the postcolonial travelling subject -- 4. Merging with and separating from the mother: bound motion in At the Bottom of the River -- 5. The politics of a silent voice -- 6. Declarations of in(ter)dependence in Lucy -- 7. Locomotive tongues: voice and body in Lucy -- II: "The mestiza way" -- 1. Individualism or communitarianism? -- 2. Mastering "the art of the present": unnatural boundaries and borderlands -- 3. Weaving and unweaving through the vignette -- 4. "Private open spaces": rebilding [sic] the private and the public -- 5. More room to play: deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation -- III: "It translated well" -- 1. The promise and the perils of translation -- 2. "Minoritising" translations: the "Japanese Hamlet" and the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 3. Translation and marriage in the Asian American Bildungsroman -- 4. "La belle infidéle": the feminist translator and her dilemmas -- 5. "Impossible conversions": translating the letter or the sense? -- 6. "Dwelling in travel": translating the mother's tongue -- 7. Seduction and the "father's text" -- 8. "Something gives": revisiting relevance -- IV: "In the name of grand asymmetries" -- 1. Imprinting the body: lessons of survival and emotional tattoos -- 2. Against uniformity: transgressive spellings of the body -- 3. From the personal to the political: cancer and its meanings -- A poetics of death: ars moriendi as an art of living -- 5. The art of love: uses of the erotic Summary Unsettling the Bildungsroman combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Cisneros, Sandra 1954- gnd Kincaid, Jamaica 1949- gnd Kingston, Maxine Hong 1940- gnd Lorde, Audre 1934-1992 gnd Cisneros, Sandra. (DE-588c)4424286-4. swd Kincaid, Jamaica. (DE-588c)4320303-6. swd Kingston, Maxine Hong. (DE-588c)4065440-0. swd Lorde, Audre. (DE-588c)4336868-2. swd Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Bildungsromans, American -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism Bildungsromans, American -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- Minority authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism Women in literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Women in literature American fiction -- Women authors American fiction -- Minority authors American literature -- Minority authors Ethnicity Language and culture Literature Women authors, American Bildungsroman Ethnizität Motiv Frauenliteratur United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9789401200677 940120067X 128321279X 9781283212793 9786613212795 6613212792

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