Modeling minority women : heroines in African and Asian American fiction

Title:

Author:

Hebbar, Reshmi J.

ISBN:

9780203942574

Personal Author:

Hebbar, Reshmi J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Series:

Studies in Asian Americans : reconceptualizing culture, history, and politics

Asian Americans.

Contents:

Someday my prince will come : ambivalent romance and ethnicity in the fiction of the Eaton sisters -- The fairest of them all : ethnicity, heroines, and the objectifying lens -- Cinderella's understudies : marginality, ethnicity, and the negotiated spaces of heroine desire -- Little princesses : a new generation of ethnic, adolescent heroines.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.

American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.

American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Minority women -- United States -- Intellectual life.

African American women -- Intellectual life.

Asian American women -- Intellectual life.

Women and literature -- United States.

African American women in literature.

Asian American women in literature.