Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire (eBook)

Mary McAleer Balkun, Susan C. Imbarrato (Herausgeber)

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2016
X, 286 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-54323-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation.

Joan Bristol, George Mason University, USA Ann Brunjes, Bridgewater State University, USA Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, University of Arkansas, USA Astrid M. Fellner, Saarland University, Germany Brigitte Nicole Fielder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Theresa Strouth Gaul, Texas Christian University, USA Susanne Hamscha, University of Goettingen, Germany Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona, USA Lisa M. Logan, University of Central Florida, USA Thomas Lawrence Long, University of Connecticut Denise Mary MacNeil, University of Redlands, USA Cathy Rex, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA Marion Rust, University of Kentucky, USA Sarah Schuetze, St. Norbert College, USA Samantha Tamulis, Yale School of Nursing, USA Kacy Dowd Tillman, University of Tampa, USA Dan Williams, Texas Christian University, USA Rochelle Raineri Zuck, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

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The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early nineteenth-century United States, challenging scholars to reflect on the implications of early American literature even to the present day.

Autor

Mary McAleer Balkun is Professor of English at Seton Hall University, USA. She is the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture and an associate editor of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Susan C. Imbarrato is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA. She is the author of Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America and a past President of the Society of Early Americanists.

Inhalt

Preface; Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. ImbarratoIntroduction; Marion Rust1. Gudrid Thorbjornsdöttir: First Foremother of American Empire; Annette Kolodny2. Ungendering Empire: Catalina de Erauso and the Performance of Masculinity; Cathy Rex3. Creole Civic Pride and Positioning "Exceptional" Black Women; Joan Bristol and Tamara Harvey4. Imposing Order: Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal and the Anglo-American Empire; Ann M. Brunjes5. The Midwife's Calling: Martha Ballard's Diary and the Empire of Medical Knowledge in the Early Republic; Thomas Lawrence Long6. The Birth Pangs of the American Mother: Puritanism, Republicanism, and the Letter-Journal of Esther Edwards Burr; Samantha Cohen Tamulis7. Empire and the Pan-Atlantic Self in The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield; Denise Mary MacNeil8. 'The Fever and the Fetters': An Epidemiology of Captivity and Empire; Sarah Schuetze9. Women Left Behind: Female Loyalism, Coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway's Empire of Self; Kacy Dowd Tillman10. 'Solitary, Neglected, Despised': Cruel Optimism and National Sentimentality; Astrid M. Fellner and Susanne Hamscha11. The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement; Brigitte Fielder12. New World Roots: Transatlantic Fictions, Creole Marriages, and Women's Cultivation of Empire in the Americas; Rochelle Raineri Zuck13. Catharine Brown's Body: Missionary Spiritualization and Cherokee Embodiment; Theresa Strouth Gaul14. Territorial Agency: Negotiations of Space and Empire in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston; Lisa M. Logan15. 'Her Book the Only Hope She Had': Self and Sovereignty in the Narratives of Ann Carson; Dan Williams16. Bodies of Work: Early American Women Writers, Empire, and Pedagogy; Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 286 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: America • Fiction • Gender • History of Literature • Literature • North America • Social Science • Sociology • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-137-54323-X / 113754323X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-54323-3 / 9781137543233