Women writing cloth: an introduction -- Hester's needle: mending new-world fragmentation in the Scarlet Letter -- Sister's choice and Celie's quilted eloquence in The color purple -- The portable rebozo: Cisneros's Caramelo and metafictional histories -- Bernardi's openwork and Italian women's diasporas
Summary
Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary argues that cloth-work serves as a textual signifier of mobility and preservation, constituting a revolt against a devaluation of cultural heritage and a distrust of the self. Bona develops a new framework for examining analogies between weaving and storytelling, the flow of needlework across place and time, women's labor and status, and the power of cloth-work as both means and metaphor for cultural reintegration across borders
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-129) and index
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