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1 online resource |
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Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Threshold Thinking; American Women's Writing, Liminality, and Hybridity: Background and Contexts; At the Thresholds: The Essays; Works Cited; Part I: Early American Thresholds; Chapter 2: Early American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act; Works Cited; Chapter 3: "Sweet Cement": Occasioning Bathsheba Bowers's An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgments |
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"Terrors Within ... Distemper Without": The Occasion of Bowers's Writing"Preaching and Praying, Writing and Printing": Bowers's Use of Prophecy and Spiritual Autobiography; "Any Part or Parts, or the Whole": Bowers's Poetics of Compendiousness; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Beyond "The Bars": Lucy Terry Prince and the Margins of the Colonial Landscape; Children as Prince's Audience and the Poem as Map; Puritan Girls and African "Servants": Autobiographical Echoes; Changing Borders and the Receding Frontier: The End of the Commons; Works Cited |
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Chapter 5: The Liminal Time of Friendship: Narrative Delay in Hannah Webster Foster's The CoquetteWorking for the Future: The Organization of Gendered Time; Female Friendship and the Dilation of Liminal Time; Friendship with Men and the Dangers of Consonance; Eliza's Ending: Seduced Out of Liminality; Works Cited; Chapter 6: "We Cannot Be Indifferent": Native Americans and the Students of the Bethlehem Boarding School; The Moravians and the Archives; The Old Chapel as Liminal and Transnational Space; Reading Native Americans: Print Culture and the Bethlehem Boarding School Students |
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Female Oration and an Intervention into the Public Sphere and Print CultureA Material Intervention: The Manuscript of "On the Aborigines of America"; The Political and Cultural Work of "On the Aborigines of America"; Conclusion: The Legacies of the Students at the Bethlehem Boarding School; Works Cited; Part II: Nineteenth-Century Thresholds; Chapter 7: Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Changing Is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft; The Lens of Native Aesthetics |
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Liminal Transformation as "Survivance" in "The Origin of the Robin"13New Ways of Being in the "The Forsaken Brother"; Teasing Disappearance in "Moowis, The Indian Coquette"; Resisting Henry's Editorial Practices in "Character of Aboriginal Historical Tradition: A Letter to the Editor of the Muzzeniegun"; Reconstructing Our Relationship to Schoolcraft's World; Works Cited; Chapter 9: Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Fiction; Becoming Liminal; Inhabiting the Liminal Space of Boarding; Transforming Potential of the Liminal |
| Summary |
This book highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women's writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables. The collection's introduction, three unit introductions, fourteen individual essays, and afterward facilitate a process of encounters, engagements, and conversations within, between, among, and across the rich polyphony that constitutes the creative acts of American women writers. The contributors offer fresh perspectives on canonical writers as well as introduce readers to new authors. As a whole, the collection demonstrates American women's writing is "threshold writing," or writing that occupies a liminal, hybrid space that both delimits borders and offers enticing openings |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 9, 2018) |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Liminality in literature.
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Cultural fusion in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature -- Women authors
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Cultural fusion in literature
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Liminality in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jacobson, Kristin J., 1973- editor.
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Allukian, Kristin, editor
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Legleitner, Rickie-Ann, editor
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Allison, Leslie, editor
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| ISBN |
9783319738512 |
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3319738518 |
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