Unsettling the bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction / Stella Bolaki.
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2011.
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| Series: | Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ;
no. 4. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 283 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789042033672 (alk. paper) 9042033673 (alk. paper) 9789401200677 940120067X |