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Moving on : the heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin
- Title
- Moving on : the heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin / Susan S. Kissel.
- Author
- Kissel, Susan S.
- Publication
- Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.H47 K57 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 232 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Focusing on the works of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin as representative of changes taking place today, Kissel shows how white southern women are "moving on" in their fiction, with heroines not only continuing to renounce southern patriarchal tradition but moving beyond to establish independent lives and caring communities in American society.
- They are beginning to close the gap that has existed between themselves and black southern women writers, whose protagonists have long shown that the strength and independence of female maturity must be synonymous with complete character development.
- A background synthesis freshly discussing the work of Chopin, McCullers, O'Connor, Mitchell, and Welty leads to extended treatment of the novels of Shirley Ann Grau, whose protagonists, "keepers of the house," remain their fathers' daughters; of Anne Tyler, whose characters are "fatherless" and "homeless at home"; and Gail Godwin, whose daughter-heroines learn the necessity of autonomy.
- Further development is shown in a subsequent generation of writers, discussed as paralleling either Grau ("haunted by the past"), Tyler ("making adult choices") or Godwin ("creating new communities") and pointing to a continuing progression.
- Subjects
- Tyler, Anne > Characters > Women heroes
- Southern States > In literature
- Grau, Shirley Ann > Characters > Women heroes
- American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Southern States > History > 20th century
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women in literature
- American fiction > White authors > History and criticism
- Godwin, Gail > Characters > Women heroes
- Heroines in literature
- American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shirley Ann Grau's Keepers of the House -- 3. Ann Tyler's "Homeless at Home" -- 4. Gail Godwin's Family Reconfigurations -- 5. Other Contemporary Authors and Their Fictional Worlds -- 6. Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 087972711X
- 0879727128 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96023213
- OCLC
- ocm34782735
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries