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Author(s): Patsy J. Daniels
ISBN(s): 9781443861113, 1443861111
Edition: 1
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1443861111

ISBN 13: 9781443861113

Author: Patsy J. Daniels

In the twentieth century, as previously excluded groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and the differently gendered, gained a voice in society, group identity also changed and new definitions became necessary. Whether through their group affiliations or in spite of these affiliations, many individuals sought a new definition of themselves. As can be expected, much literature explores these changes and depicts the quest for new definitions and the search for individuality in the light of new definitions. Construction or definition of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions; this practice can be found throughout much of history. This volume is about that kind of oppression and various strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays, all by recognized scholars, are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and The Family and the Self.

Table of contents:

Part I: Race, Gender, and the Self

  • Empathy and Metaphor: The Critique and Embrace of Essentialist Thought in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge – Helen F. Maxson

  • Deconstructing Katherine Anne Porter: “Strange Fruit” in The Fig Tree – Patsy J. Daniels

  • Shakespeare’s Othello: Postmodern Paradigm Shifts and the American “Other” – Everett G. Neasman

  • The Walls Are Crumbling Down: Houses as Death Metaphors in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and To the Lighthouse – Emily Clark

Part II: Assimilation and the Self

  • Disidentification with the Homogenizing and Commodifying Narratives of Ethnicity in Han Ong’s Fixer Chao – Youngsuk Chae

  • Lawson Fusao Inada, West Coast Jazz, and the Politics of Identity Formation – Shawn P. Holliday

Part III: Black Males and the Self

  • Appropriate Blackness: Oreo Dreams Deferred in Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play – Claude Wilkinson

  • “A Friend of My Mind”: Rhetorical Strategies of Black Male Subjectivity in Beloved – Aaron N. Oforlea

Part IV: Female Sexuality and the Self

  • “The Best Stuff God Did”: The Rhetoric of Same-Sex Intimacy and Egalitarian Christianity in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Ann Allen Shockley’s Say Jesus and Come to Me – Tara Tuttle

  • E(race)ing Female Sexuality in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird – Cameron E. Williams

Part V: The Family and the Self

  • Layers of Identity Formation in Ana Castillo’s Peel My Love Like an Onion – Lucinda Channon

  • Division of Maternal Effort in Anne Enright’s The Gathering – Candis P. Pizzetta

  • When Ethnicity, History, and Parenting Collide: Mothering Understood in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife and Christina García’s Dreaming in Cuban – Preselfannie Evet Whitfield McDaniels

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