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Navigating women's friendships in American literature and culture

Title
Navigating women's friendships in American literature and culture / Kristi Branham, Kelly L. Reames, editors.
Publication
  • Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
  • ©2023

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  • Branham, Kristi
  • Reames, Kelly Lynch
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Description
1 online resource.
Series Statement
American literature readings in the 21st century
Uniform Title
American literature readings in the 21st century.
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Female friendship in literature
Note
  • Includes index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Contents
  • Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Images -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating Women's Friendships into the Twenty-First Century -- Bibliography -- Part I: Friendship as Identity -- Chapter 2: Entangled Roots: "Old Friends" Reconnected in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation -- Between Cruelty and Mutuality: Feminist Examinations of Friendship -- The Princess and the Potato: Embodiment in Adolescent and Adult Friendship -- Navigating Abortion: Adolescent Friendship and Its Falling Out -- Embodied Differences: Adult Friendship and the In/Fertile Body
  • Ritual Return: Domestic Friendship at the Kitchen Table -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Gothic's Creation of Women's Friendship in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Political Progress and Social Stall: Groupthink, Smart Talk, and Mary McCarthy's Friendship Novel -- "On the Same Side and Alone:" Mary McCarthy's Life and Friendships -- "Am I My Sister's Jailer?": Rivalry, Envy, and Competitive Consumerism in The Group -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Girlfriend Epistemology in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
  • Situating GFE Within Womanist Readings of The Color Purple -- Self-Other-Divine: Experiencing Friendship and Knowing God -- Bibliography -- Part II: Friendship as Support -- Chapter 6: "We Will Work Together": Interclass Women's Collabships in Progressive Era Novels -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Fleur's Kinship, Pauline's Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- Fleur's and Pauline's Survival Strategies -- Gendered Forms of Colonization -- Fleur's Silence and Pauline's Narrative -- Bibliography
  • Chapter 8: "What Obligation Do I Have Toward Her?": College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman and The Bell Jar -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: "The Tenderness of One Woman for Another": Female Friendship and Revolt in the Twentieth-Century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Bibliography -- Part III: Friendship as Challenge -- Chapter 10: "Feeling You Near": Georgia O'Keeffe's Friendship with Mary Callery -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: "These Sweet Trees": Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Womanist Friendship -- Reading Black Feminist Intersectional
  • On Womanist Friendship -- Meeting Alice Walker and June Jordan as Friends -- "First-Person Singular: A Letter to June Jordan" -- Summertime Tanka -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga's Friendship, Falling Out, and Forgiveness -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Beat-Associated Women and Female Relationships in Carolyn Cassady's Off the Road -- Life-Writing and Beat-Associated Memoirists -- Lu Anne Henderson, Anne Murphy, and Diana Hansen in Off the Road -- Bibliography
ISBN
  • 9783031080036
  • 3031080033
LCCN
10.1007/978-3-031-08003-6
OCLC
om2126474045
Title
Navigating women's friendships in American literature and culture / Kristi Branham, Kelly L. Reames, editors.
Publisher
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Series
American literature readings in the 21st century
American literature readings in the 21st century.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 17, 2022).
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Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Branham, Kristi, editor.
Reames, Kelly Lynch, editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: 9783031080036
Print version: 3031080025 9783031080029
Other Standard Identifier
10.1007/978-3-031-08003-6 doi
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