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Popular feminist fiction as American allegory : representing national time /

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Main Author: Elliott, Jane, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States.
United States > Civilization > 1970-
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • The problem of static time : totalization, the end of history, and the end of the 1960s
  • Heir apparent : legacies of the 1960s in The women's room and Vida
  • Dead-end job : The Stepford wives, domestic labor, and the end of history
  • Promiscuous times : Rubyfruit jungle, Fear of flying, and the desire for the event
  • Alice Walker's hindsight : Meridian, The color purple, and the production of prolepsis
  • My mother, myself : sentiment and the transcendence of time in The Joy Luck Club and The divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
  • Coda : hurried woman tales.