Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
[Book]
:American Voices and American Identities
/ Mary Jane Hurst
New York
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2011.
x, 238 p.
(American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
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Bibliography
Index
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 Chaavez's Face of an angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque - Twenty-first century reflections on American voices and American identities.
American fiction, 20th century, History and criticism