Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories
Description
This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceGender StudiesAmericanFictionLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2007Book
Author(s)Melissa Bostrom
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781403979902
LanguageEnglish
