Narrating American gender and ethnic identities

Narrating American gender and ethnic identities /

" ... investigates two major issues within contemporary American Studies: cultural representations of various minorities (ethnic, religious, sexual) and of women in intersectional contexts of race, class, and sexuality. The first part of the volume, "Gender and Sexuality in Film and Litera...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Corporate Author: Polish Association for American Studies (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Różalska, Aleksandra M. (Editor), Zygadło, Grażyna (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
Subjects:
Gender identity in motion pictures > Congresses.
Gender identity in literature > Congresses.
Ethnicity in motion pictures > Congresses.
Ethnicity in literature > Congresses.
American literature > History and criticism > Congresses.
Motion pictures > United States > History > Congresses.
Minorities > United States > Congresses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. American Gender and Ethnic Identities Revisited / Aleksandra M. Różalska and Grażyna Zygadło
  • Part I: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Literature. Bitchy, Messy, Queer. Femininity and Camp in Maysles Brothers' Grey Gardens, its HBO Remake, and Krzysztof Warlikowski's Tramway / Agnieszka Graff
  • "I Will Make a Man Out of You": The Im(Possibility) of Female Individualism in Disney's Animated Films / Justyna Fruzińska
  • Masking of Identities: The Portrait of Femme Fatale in the American Film Noir / Małgorzata Martynuska
  • What to Do with Her? Female Law Enforcement Figures in American Cinema / Elżbieta Durys
  • The Watermelon Woman and Black Queer Cinema / Krystyna Mazur
  • Illustrating Letters to God: Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple Twenty-Five Years After / Elżbieta Rokosz-Piejko
  • The Fantasy of Liberation: Politics, Pornography, and Women's Lives in Running Dog / Heather Hadar Wright
  • Experiencing a Place. Discovering Oneself. The Inhabitants of Barbara Kingsolver's Southern Appalachians in Prodigal Summer / Katarzyna Czerwiec-Dykiel
  • Part II: American Experiences of Ethnic Diversity. "Alma entre dos mundos": Spatial Metaphors in the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes / Paulina Ambroży
  • California after the US Conquest and the Status Anxiety: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don / Katarzyna Nowak
  • American Narrative of the Return to the "Peripheries" in Bernard Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman and Alejo Carpentier's Concierto Barroco / Dominika Bugno-Narecka
  • Native Americans in Television Narratives: Dr. Quinn, the Medicine Woman and Northern Exposure / Aleksandra M. Różalska
  • Visualizing Sensory Identities: Exploring Ways of Perception among Small Communities in Auto-driven Photographic Project by Oneida and Polish Youth Conducted in 2007-2008 / Alicja Froń
  • Native-American Responses to America: William Apess and Leslie Marmon Silko / Manlio Della Marca
  • The Symbolism of Blue Eyes in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie / Grażyna Zygadło
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Welfare: How Does Diversity Challenge Redistribution in the US? / Emilia Świętochowska.

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