Scholarly study of seventeen American women writers, 1890s–1920s, on race, gender, power, and narrative form.
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Scholarly study of seventeen American women writers, 1890s–1920s, on race, gender, power, and narrative form.
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The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in the serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Humishuma, Jessie Fauset, Edith Whar...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Scholarly discussion of romance and desire in analyzed literary texts
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Includes Gertrude Stein; LGBTQ+ identity not a primary focus
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central feminist critique of race, gender, power, and literary canons
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses systemic barriers and oppression of women across race and class
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