Unsettling the bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction /

Unsettling the bildungsroman : reading contemporary ethnic American women's fiction / Stella Bolaki.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bolaki, Stella
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 4.
Subjects:
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Women authors, American > History and criticism.
Ethnicity in literature.
Language and culture > United States.
Table of 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.

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