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Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

By: Elizabeth Sabiston

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Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

By: Elizabeth Sabiston

Emily Dickinson's poem, 'This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to Me --', opens the Introduction, which focuses on the near-anonymity of nineteenth-century women novelists. Close readings of works by five British novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot offer persuasive accounts of the ways in which women used stealth tactics to outmaneuver their detractors. Chapters examine the 'hidden manifesto' in Austen's works, whose imaginative heroines defend women's writing; the lasting impact of Jane Eyre, with its modest heroine who takes up the pen to tell her own story, even on male writers outside the English tradition; Cathy's testament as the 'ghost-text' of Wuthering Heights; and the shifting gender roles in Daniel Deronda, with its silenced heroine and androgynous hero. Though the focus is on British novelists, the author's discussion of the Anglo-American connections in the factory novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and the slavery writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe has particular relevance for its demonstration of how the move from the private to the public sphere enables and even compels the blurring of national and ethnic boundaries. What emerges is a compelling argument for the relevance of these novelists to the emergence in our own time of hitherto-silenced female voices around the globe.

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Routledge

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135115138X

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9781351151382

Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

A New Ulysses

By: Elizabeth Sabiston

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A New Ulysses

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In Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses, Elizabeth Sabiston analyses the dominant theme of transcultural migration, or immigration, in the experimental fiction of Hédi Bouraoui. His protagonists are seen as Ulysses-figures for the postmodern age, crossing boundaries of language as well as geography

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228

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BRILL

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9004441417

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9789004441415

Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

By: Elizabeth Dahab

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Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

By: Elizabeth Dahab

Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.

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Lexington Books

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073911879X

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9780739118795

Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

A New Ulysses

By: Elizabeth Jean Sabiston

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A New Ulysses

By: Elizabeth Jean Sabiston

In Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses, Elizabeth Sabiston analyses the dominant theme of transcultural migration, or immigration, in Hédi Bouraoui's fiction. His protagonists reflect his passion for endless travel, and are Ulysses-figures for the postmodern age. Their travels enable them to explore the "Otherness of the Other," to understand and "migrate" into them. Bouraoui's World Literature is rooted in the traversées of his characters across a number of clearly differentiated regions, which nonetheless share a common humanity. The ancient migrations of Ulysses, fuelled by violence and war, are paralleled to the modern displacements of entire cultures and even nations. Bouraoui's works bridge cultures past and present, but they also require the invention of language to convey a postmodern world in flux"--

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Francopolyphonies

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9004440852

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9789004440852

Book's by Elizabeth Jean Sabiston

Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

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