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VIGILANTE WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION IBD

AIAA
09 / 2011
9780230110908
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Sinopsis

Gun-toting, rough-riding, crack-shot women, train-robbing female bandits, blood-thirsty mothers who refuse to accept injustice- these women appear in vigilante literature as protagonists that recognize the extent of their own exploitation and directly confront the causes. In this dynamic study, Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction and develops a model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory. Through close-readings of important texts, including those by Flagg, Glaspell, Hong-Kington, Hurston, Rawlings, Walker, this analysis broadens our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women?s rights and joins the discussion about gender oppression and traditional identity politics.

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65,36