Confronting visuality in multi-ethnic women's writing / Angela Laflen.

Author/creator Laflen, Angela
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description199 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: What's (still) wrong with images of women? -- Coming-of-age with mass media -- (re)visualizing history in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye -- Transforming culture and consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason's In country -- Witnessing visual manipulation -- There were signs and I missed them: reading beneath the image in Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction -- The politics of vanishing: bearing witness to the wounded family in Louise Erdrich's Shadow tag -- Spectatorship in an expanded field of vision -- Against visual objectivity in Gish Jen's Birthmates and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The ultrasound -- Queering spectatorship in Alison Bechdel's Fun home -- Conclusion: Confronting visuality in the digital age.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 169-190) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014005799
ISBN9781137413031 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1137413034 (hardback : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS151 .L34 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold