Between the Angle and the Curve: Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison

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Taylor & Francis, 2006 - 226 pagina's

In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russell demonstrates, the unique depictions Cather and Morrison create of the American landscape challenge existing assertions about American fiction. Specifically, Russell argues that looking at the intimate connections between space, gender, race, and identity as they play out in the fiction of Cather and Morrison refutes the myth of a unified American landscape and thus opens up the territory of American fiction.

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Where Am I and How Did I Get Here? The Connections between Space Identity and the Fiction of Willa Cather and Toni Morrison
1
Background Foregrounded The Significance of Setting or Dont Skip the Descriptive Bits
27
Maneuvering through the Maternal Landscape Traditions Tropes and New Techniques
59
Home Hearth and Harpies Discovering a Space of Ones Own in the Domestic Sphere
103
This Way to the Egress Exiting Thoughts on the Cartography of Connection
151
Notes
189
Bibliography
203
Index
221
Back cover
227
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