Creating Your Own Space - The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature

Creating Your Own Space explores the reasons for the use of the house as a metaphor by analyzing two literary works and a particular metaphor, such as the house as a prison or the house as a place of economic freedom.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The House as a Symbol of Women's Economic Freedom: The House on Mango Street and A Room of One's Own
Chapter 2: The House and Female Mental Entrapment: The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea
Chapter 3: The House as a Metaphor for Social Performance: The House of Mirth and The Awakening
Chapter 4: The House as a Symbol of Female Physical Entrapment: A Doll House and La casa de Bernarda Alba
Chapter 5: The House as a Magical Space: The House of the Spirits and Like Water for Chocolate
Chapter 6: The House as a Metaphor of Social and Racial Integration: Brown Girl, Brownstones and A Raisin in the Sun

About the author

By María Davis

Product details

• Authors: Maria Davis, María Davis
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2021
• EAN: 9781793615350
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-535-0
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, architecture;feminism;metaphor;women