Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities.
Images of their disloyalty pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride ...
Since its inception, black feminist literary criticism has produced a number of sophisticated theoretical works
that have challenged traditional approaches to (black) literature. This collection of essays explores past and current productions of black feminist theorizing, attempting to trace the ...
Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper has always been recognized
as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, ...
Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman,
turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence ...
Past studies have discussed antebellum and early national sentimental literature by and about women as
a retreat from, or criticism of, the burgeoning market. In this landmark study, Joseph Fichtelberg examines how this literature actually helped to bring market behaviors ...
This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems
that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of ...
The concept of woman as having a distinctive nature and requiring a separate sphere of
activity from that of man was pervasive in the thinking of nineteenth- century Americans. So dominant was this horizon of expectations for woman that the ...
Michael Pearson here writes about his travels to American places of literary import, including: William
Faulkner's Mississippi; Ernest Hemingway's Key West; John Steinbeck's California; Mark Twain's Missouri; and Flannery O'Connor's Georgia.