| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
From girl to woman/ by Christy Rishoi. |
| Reminder of title: |
American women's coming-of-age narratives / |
| Author: |
Rishoi, Christy, |
| Published: |
Albany :State University of New York Press, : c2003., |
| Description: |
xi, 201 p. ;23 cm. |
| Series: |
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
| [NT 15003449]: |
1. Identity and the coming-of-age narrative -- Recreating womanhood -- -- 2. Feminism, autobiography, and theories of subjectivity -- Feminism and the autobiographical act -- Western theories of subjectivity -- Feminist poststructuralist revisions to subjectivity -- -- 3. Coming of age in America -- Historical accounts of adolescence -- Psychological accounts of adolescence -- Literary accounts of coming age -- The coming-of-age-narrative -- American grand narratives of coming of age -- -- 4. Specifying American girlhood : Annie Dillard and Anne Moody -- Specifying the universal in An American childhood -- Hegemonic inscription of the body in Coming of age in Mississippi -- -- 5. "Lying contests" : fictional autobiography and autobiographical fiction -- "Lying contests" : signifying coming of age Janie's ways of knowing -- -- 6. "Room for paradoxes" : creating a hybrid identity -- A "World of paper strengths" : the education of Kate Simon -- Mythology and narrative in the creation of identity: the Woman warrior. |
| Subject: |
Autobiography - Women authors. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112748An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417524138 (electronic bk.) |