Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture by S. Fishkin

Description: Feminist Engagements by S. Fishkin This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the countrys leading scholars in American Studies. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the countrys leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists challenges to cultural paradigms. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape. Author Biography Shelley Fisher Fishkin is a Professor in the Department of English at Stanford University, USA. She is the author, editor or co-editor of over forty books including "Feminist Engagements: Forays Into American Literature and Culture" (selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title" by "Choice") and has published over one hundred articles, essays, columns, and reviews. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Georgian, and Italian, and has been published in English-language journals in Turkey, Japan, and Korea. She has served as President of the American Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America. In addition, she was co-founder of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman society, and has been chair of the MLA Nonfiction Prose Division. Table of Contents Introduction * PART I: Changing the Story * "The Borderlands of Culture" * "Making a Change" * "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" * "Changing the Story" * "Essentialism and its Discontents" * PART II: Men Reading& Writing Women/Women Reading& Writing Men * "Dreiser and the Discourse of Gender" * "Mark Twain and Women" * "An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston" * "The Bondwomans Escape " * PART III: Humor and Chutzpah * "Feminist Humor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman" * "Theresa Malkiels Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker " * "Erica Jong" * Epilogue Review CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Long Description This book offers historically-grounded, feminist interventions into American literary history by one of the countrys leading scholars in American Studies. Integrating criticism, biography, social history, popular culture, and personal narrative Fishkin explores the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century. These charismatic, readable essays range from explorations of feminist humor and chutzpah, to meditations on the personal and the political, to examinations of feminists challenges to cultural paradigms. Fishkin s lively voice engages readers with the American past and leaves a bold stamp on the literary landscape. Review Quote "These forays are excellent examples of second-wave feminist scholarship . . . Highly recommended to all readers."--CHOICE"Because she has an appreciation of humor and of writing from the undergrounds of race, class, and gender, Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the perfect person to meditate on the contributions of black and Latino writers, unsung women writers, and those who transgress the conventional boundaries of literature. Her book is enormously valuable and great fun to read."-Erica Jong, poet and novelist, author of twenty-two books includingLove Comes First"Shelley Fisher Fishkin gives us a spirited and personal account of her coming to feminism, of the mentors who inspired her and the shifts in methodology and perspective her feminist engagements have provoked in her critical work. Feminism, for Fishkin, is a way of reading-American literature by women and men, popular culture, and, most engagingly, humor-that leads to a reconceptualization of American Studies by one of its foremost scholars."--Marianne Hirsch, Co-Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University"This book is excitingly, intellectually engaged and, at the same time, movingly self-revelatory. Every page is to be savored."--Annette Kolodny, Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture, University of Arizona and author ofThe Lay of the Land Details ISBN0312238584 Short Title FEMINIST ENGAGEMENTS Language English ISBN-10 0312238584 ISBN-13 9780312238582 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Pages 279 Residence TX, US Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Forays into American Literature and Culture Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Edition 2009th DOI 10.1604/9780312238582 AU Release Date 2009-04-12 NZ Release Date 2009-04-12 US Release Date 2009-04-12 UK Release Date 2009-04-12 Illustrations VII, 279 p. Author S. Fishkin Publisher Palgrave USA Edition Description 2009 ed. Publication Date 2009-04-12 Alternative 9780230615946 DEWEY 810.99287 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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