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Language, gender, and community in late twentieth-century fiction [electronic resource] : American voices and American identities /

by Hurst, Mary Jane; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: American literature readings in the 21st century: Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, c2010Description: x, 238 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Communities in literature | Language and languages in literature | Gender identity in literature | National characteristics, American, in literature | Multiculturalism in literature | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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 Ch�avez's Face of an angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque -- Twenty-first century reflections on American voices and American identities.
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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 Ch�avez's Face of an angel and Rudolfo Anaya's Alburquerque -- Twenty-first century reflections on American voices and American identities.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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