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Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction M. Hurst

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction By M. Hurst

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction by M. Hurst

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Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities.

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction Summary

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities by M. Hurst

Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities.

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction Reviews

'Hurst's greatest contribution is the bridging of linguistic and literary perspectives in the study of language, gender and community. She effectively uses both approaches and renders a unique analysis that benefits not only readers interested in linguistics and literature but also those curious about new ways of studying gender and language. This makes the book interesting, useful and accessible to undergraduate, graduate and other scholarly communities interested in gender, language and literature.' Gender and Language

About M. Hurst

MARY JANE HURST is a Professor of English at Texas Tech University, USA, and the author of The Voice of the Child in American Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language.

Table of Contents

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 Chavez's Face of an Angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque Twenty-First Century Reflections on American Voices and American Identities

Additional information

NPB9780230110458
9780230110458
0230110452
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities by M. Hurst
M. Hurst
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-02-25
238
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