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- American literature readings in the 21st century
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- American literature readings in the 21st century.
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- 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
- 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 17, 2022).
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Branham, Kristi, editor.
Reames, Kelly Lynch, editor.
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Print version: 9783031080036
Print version: 3031080025 9783031080029
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10.1007/978-3-031-08003-6 doi