Women, America, and movement : narratives of relocation

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Label

Women, America, and movement : narratives of relocation

Title remainder

narratives of relocation

Statement of responsibility

edited by Susan L. Roberson

Contributor

• University of Missouri Press
• Roberson, Susan L., 1950-

Subject

• American fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Emigration and immigration in literature
• Exiled women authors
• Exiles in literature
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• History
• Home in literature
• Immigrants in literature
• Migration, Internal, in literature
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Women and literature -- United States -- History

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Since the colonial days, American women have traveled, migrated, and relocated, always faced with the challenge of reconstructing their homes for themselves and their families. Women, America, and Movement offers a journey through largely unexplored territory{u2014}the experiences of migrating American women. These narratives, both real and imagined, represent a range of personal and critical perspectives; some of the women describe their travels as expansive and freeing, while others relate the dreadful costs and sacrifices of relocating. Despite the range of essays featured in this study, the writings all coalesce around the issues of politics, poetry, and self- identity described by Adrienne Rich as the elements of the "politics of location," treated here as the politics of relocation. The narratives featured in this book explore the impact of race, class, and sexual economics on migratory women, their self-identity, and their roles in family and social life. These issues demonstrate that in addition to geographic place, ideology is itself a space to be traversed. By examining the writings of such women as Louise Erdrich, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein, the essayists included in this volume offer a variety of experiences. The book confronts such issues as racist politicking against Native Americans, African Americans, and Asian immigrants; sexist attitudes that limit women to the roles of wife, mother, and sexual object; and exploitation of migrants from Appalachia and of women newly arrived in America. These essays also delve into the writings themselves by looking at what happens to narrative structure as authors or their characters cross geographic boundaries. The reader sees how women writers negotiate relocation in their texts and how the written word becomes a place where one finds oneself."--Publishers website

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/9287

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS374.W6

LC item number

W66 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography