Sons and daughters of self-made men : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature /
"At a moment in which America seems simultaneously more closed and more open to change than ever before, Sons and Daughters of Self-Made Men: Improvising Gender, Place, Nation in American Literature re-examines a defining national discourse. Exploring the dilemmas of U.S. subjects positioned as...
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Lewisburg, Pa. :
Bucknell University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : pioneers and patriots
- Introduction : self-making and self-improvisation
- Fatherlands : paternal erotics of place in Faulkner, Welty, and Morrison
- No-places : un-made children in Petry, Ellison, and Boyle
- Motherlands : alternative places in Cather, Smiley, and Faulkner
- Otherlands : self-improvisation in Cisneros, Wideman, and Morrison
- Coda : improvisation nation.