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viii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Narratives of relocation and dislocation : an introduction / Susan Roberson -- Exile, depatriation and Constance Fenimore Woolson's traveling regionalism / Peter Caccavari -- "Colored biscuits" : reconstructing whiteness and the boundaries of "home" in Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster / Giavanna Munafo -- Haunting the borderlands : La Llorona in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" / Jacqueline Doyle -- America, romance, and the fate of the wandering woman : the case of Charlotte Temple / Kay Ferguson Ryals -- Slum angels : the white-slave narrative in Theodore Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt / Katherine Joslin -- Constructing "home" in Mary Paik Lee's Quiet odyssey : a pioneer Korean woman in America / Monica Chiu -- Always becoming : narratives of nation and self in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Deepika Bahri -- Comic displacement : Caroline M. Kirkland's satire of frontier democracy in A new home, who'll follow? / Caroline Gebhard -- "My country is Kentucky" : leaving Appalachia in Harriette Arnow's The dollmaker / Rachel Lee Rubin -- "This ain't real estate" : land and culture in Louise Erdrich's Chippewa tetralogy / Tom Berninghausen -- "With the wind rocking the wagon" : women's narratives of the way west / Susan Roberson -- On the gatepost : literal and metaphorical journeys in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Barbara Rodriguez -- "By being outside of America" : Gertrude Stein's "Geographical History" of gender, self, and writing / Hugh English. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History.
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
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Migration, Internal, in literature.
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Immigrants in literature.
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Exiles in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Home in literature.
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| Added Author |
Roberson, Susan L., 1950-
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| ISBN |
0826211763 (alk. paper) |
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