Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories

Informationen zum Autor MELISSA BOSTROM is a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Klappentext This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness. Zusammenfassung This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Story The Female Sexual Economy Economics of Whiteness Economies

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Story The Female Sexual Economy Economics of Whiteness Economies

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• Authors: M Bostrom, M. Bostrom, Melissa Bostrom
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349538508
• ISBN: 978-1-349-53850-8
• No. of pages: 231
• 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
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Fiction and Related items, America;economy;female sex;fiction