Literary identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga

Summary: "The two nineteenth-century English authors discussed in this book, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, established the conventions of the novel of female formation. Their twentieth-century English descendants, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson, challenge the dominance of heterosexuality in such narratives. In twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives by Simone de Beauvoir, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, the female subject is shaped not only by gender conventions but also by colonial and postcolonial conflict and national identity. For many contemporary critics and theorists, identification is a middlebrow or feminized reading response or a structure that functions to reproduce the middle-class subjectivity and obscure social conflict. However, Green suggests that the range and variability of the literary identifications of authors, readers, and characters within these novels allows such identifications to function variably as well: in liberatory or life-enhancing ways as well as oppressive or reactionary ones"--Publisher's description.

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ISBN: 9780814211991
ISBN: 0814211992
ISBN: 9780814293003
ISBN: 9780814270325
ISBN: 081429300X
ISBN: 0814270328
Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)
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Publisher: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-222) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. The novel of formation and literary identification. Experiencing literary identification ; Understanding literary identification ; Defending literary identification -- 2. Coming together : George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. George Eliot : dark woman, dutiful daughter ; Simone de Beauvoir : my freedom, her death ; Tsitsi Dangarembga : school stories -- 3. Coming apart : Charlotte Brontë, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. Charlotte Brontë : the politics of loneliness ; Jamaica Kincaid : the politics of appropriation ; Tsitsi Dangarembga : the loneliness of politics -- 4. Coming out : Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson. Voyaging out of the Victorian novel ; Who's afraid of Stephen Gordon? ; Books bought out of books.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.