Community Boundaries and Border Crossings (eBook)

Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers

Molly Fuller, Kristen Lillvis, Robert Miltner (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
246 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3949-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Through the overarching interconnected themes of community boundaries and border crossings, this collection explores issues of diaspora, trans-nationality, cultural hybridity, home, and identity that are central to ethnic women writers.

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Globalization and transnationalism have reshaped our communities and their borderlines. Communities exceed fixed boundaries, existing instead in the liminal spaces where narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate. These liminal spaces-physical and virtual, local and global-provide opportunities for diversifying discussions on diaspora, cultural hybridity, and ethnic identity. Ethnic women writers make significant contributions to this dialogue regarding the reconfiguration of people and their perimeters.A multigenre and multicultural text, Community Boundaries and Border Crossings explores the novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, testimonios, plays, poems, and hybrid poetics of established and emerging ethnic women writers. This collection of critical essays highlights the new zones of cultural contact and exchange that are defining the twenty-first century. Each chapter reflects an awareness of cultural changes and challenges, engaging readers in a richly productive conversation concerning the interconnectedness of border crossings and community boundaries.

Autor

Kristen Lillvis is associate professor of English at Marshall University.Robert Miltner is professor of English at Kent State University at Stark.Molly Fuller is teaching fellow in literature at Kent State University.

Inhalt

Dance Dance RevolutionSolidarity and Simultaneity in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa RoseThe Round HouseJana TigchelaarHannah SwamidossKate Nygren Aoileann Ní ÉigeartaighThe Electrical FieldLeila AouadiDallel Sarnou

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Transforming Literary Studies
• Co-Autor: Leila Aouadi, Sarah A. Chavez, Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh, Kate Nygren, Lydia Efthymia Roupakia, Dallel Sarnou, Hannah Swamidoss, Jana Tigchelaar, Tana Jean Welch
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Border studies • Community Identity • Cultural Studies • Diaspora • Ethnic Studies • ethnic women • Gender Studies • Globalization Studies • Migration Studies • post-apocalyptic studies • post-colonialism studies • posthumanism • Resistance Literature • resistance studies • transnationalism studies • women's studies • young adult literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3949-1 / 1498539491
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3949-4 / 9781498539494