Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction - American Voices and American Identities

Zusatztext 'Hurst's greatest contribution is the bridging of linguistic and literary perspectives in the study of language! gender and community. She effectively uses both approaches and renders a unique analysis that benefits not only readers interested in linguistics and literature but also those curious about new ways of studying gender and language. This makes the book interesting! useful and accessible to undergraduate! graduate and other scholarly communities interested in gender! language and literature.' Gender and Language Informationen zum Autor MARY JANE HURST is a Professor of English at Texas Tech University, USA, and the author of The Voice of the Child in American Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language . Klappentext Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Zusammenfassung Drawing on critical frameworks! this study establishes the centrality of language! gender! and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker! Ernest Gaines! Ann Beattie! John Updike! Chang-rae Lee! and Rudolfo Anaya! among others! show how individuals find their American identities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Finding One's Place by Finding One's Voice in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy Language and Gender in the Academic Communities of Ann Beattie's Another You and John Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration Balancing Self and Other through Speech and Silence in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses Love, Destruction, and Wounded Hearts in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris Contours of the Future in Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque Twenty-First Century Reflections on American Voices and American Identities...

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Finding One's Place by Finding One's Voice in Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy Language and Gender in the Academic Communities of Ann Beattie's Another You and John Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration Balancing Self and Other through Speech and Silence in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses Love, Destruction, and Wounded Hearts in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris Contours of the Future in Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque Twenty-First Century Reflections on American Voices and American Identities

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'Hurst's greatest contribution is the bridging of linguistic and literary perspectives in the study of language, gender and community. She effectively uses both approaches and renders a unique analysis that benefits not only readers interested in linguistics and literature but also those curious about new ways of studying gender and language. This makes the book interesting, useful and accessible to undergraduate, graduate and other scholarly communities interested in gender, language and literature.' Gender and Language

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• Authors: M Hurst, M. Hurst, Mary Jane Hurst, S. Hurst, HURST MARY JANE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2011
• EAN: 9780230110458
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11045-8
• No. of pages: 249
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Ethnicity, Gender studies, gender groups, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, America;fiction;gender;novel