Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index.
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Introduction: rethinking community for the Twent-First Century -- Choosing hope and remaking Kinship: amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- Negotiating collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven -- Colelctive liberation and activism via spirituality: ana Castill's So Far from God -- The call to love, to assert power with others: Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Conclusion: looking to the future.
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In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal. Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by wom.
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New visions of community in contemporary American fiction.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
American fiction-- Minority authors-- History and criticism.
American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Communities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Communauté dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains-- Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Roman américain-- Auteurs issus des minorités-- Histoire et critique.