Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture, and: Regionalism and the Female Imagination: A Collection of Essays, and: Living Stories, Telling Lives: Women and the Novel in Contemporary Experience, and: Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies (review)

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-630
Author(s):  
Laura L. Doan
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals Arab American Women Writers Defending Their Identities

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arab American Women

This paper addresses the issue of assimilation and identity as seen through some work that is written by Arab American women writers. The paper provides a brief history of Arab American immigration to USA. It primarily, examines three Arab American writers and highlights their impact on the American culture. The paper explores the three writers’ impact on the literature on showing assimilation and identity conflict as Arab women born, raised or lived in America. This paper explores some of their work to examine how they tackle the issue of race, identity, and ethnicity in their work. The three Arab American writers this paper studies are Diana Abu Jaber, Leila Ahmad, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Finally, this paper argues whether Arab American women writers manage to achieve the assimilation and whether they utilize the issue of their identity in what they have written as fictional and nonfictional work.

scholarly journals Unravelling compulsory happiness in exile: Cristina Peri Rossi’s The Ship of Fools

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Natasha Tanna
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Latin American Women Writers

A number of feminist critics of Latin American women writers in exile have suggested that women in exile may flourish as they are freed from the traditional gender restrictions imposed on them in their home countries. In this article I reexamine the association of exile with liberation through analysing Cristina Peri Rossi’s 1984 novel La nave de los locos ( The Ship of Fools) in the light of the tension between Rosi Braidotti’s Deleuzian affirmation of feminism as a ‘joyful nomadic force’ (1994: 8) and Sara Ahmed’s critique of compulsory happiness (2010). Peri Rossi juxtaposes the prescriptive worldview of the captivating medieval ‘Tapestry of the Creation’ in the Cathedral of Girona in Catalonia, which depicts the Biblical story of Genesis, and the diasporic and unpredictable wanderings of the protagonist Ecks on his journey to feminist enlightenment. I argue that while the novel seems to champion nomadic subjectivity, it also highlights the deceptive charm of imperative positive affect that may function as a disciplinary force, compelling subjects to follow a conventional path in life, and invalidating those who ‘stray’ from it. My reading of the novel calls for a nuanced approach to exile and diaspora that takes into account wider questions of the privilege and ease of movement – or, indeed, settling – enjoyed by or denied to various subjects.

Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Rita D. Jacobs ◽  
Catherine Rainwater ◽  
William J. Scheick
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women

Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Miller Garner ◽  
Catherine Rainwater ◽  
William J. Scheick
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women
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