Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory : Representing National Time

Elliott, Jane

Palgrave Macmillan（2008/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 225 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230605428
• DDC分類 813.54093522

基本説明

Explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.

Full Description

This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture.

Contents

The Problem of Static Time: Totalization, the End of History and the End of the 1960s Heir Apparent: Legacies of the 1960s in The Women's Room and Vida Dead-End Job: The Stepford Wives, Domestic Labor and the End of History Promiscuous Times: Post-Structuralist Desires in Rubyfruit Jungle and Fear of Flying Alice Walker's Hindsight and the Price of Futurity My Mother, Myself: Sentiment and the Transcendence of Time in The Joy Luck Club and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Coda: Hurried Woman Tales