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Reinventing selves: The performance...

Friedman, Natalie Joy.

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Reinventing selves: The performance of assimilation in immigrant women's fiction (Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reinventing selves: The performance of assimilation in immigrant women's fiction (Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti)./
Author:	Friedman, Natalie Joy.
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Phillip Brian Harper.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3009309
ISBN:	0493192514

Reinventing selves: The performance of assimilation in immigrant women's fiction (Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti).
Friedman, Natalie Joy.

Reinventing selves: The performance of assimilation in immigrant women's fiction (Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti). - 251 p.

Adviser: Phillip Brian Harper.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2001.

This project focuses on women writers of various immigrant backgrounds, and how they employ the metaphor of performance to represent the process of immigration and assimilation. My use of the term performance is manifold: it is a conjunction of meaning drawn from several disciplines—the theatrical, the anthropological, and the theoretical. At this crossroads, performance becomes a flexible term: it can refer specifically to a spectacle, or more broadly to the process of constructing an identity. Americanization-as-performance therefore can either be represented as a highly self-conscious undertaking, or it can operate in more furtive ways in the development of characters.

ISBN: 0493192514Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Reinventing selves: The performance of assimilation in immigrant women's fiction (Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edwidge Danticat, Haiti).
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520 $a The four writers I examine here—Anzia Yezierska, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maxine Hong Kingston—are united in their uses of the terms of performance and performativity, and their representations of womanhood in America. In particular, it is how they reconceptualize the conventional marriage plot that has come to be associated with women's novels in general. The immigrant literature I examine lacks the element of the domestic happy ending, particularly the culminating event of a wedding. Rather, weddings are either elided or replaced with some other major event—birth of a child, visit to the homeland—that leads to the characters' formation of a sense of self.
520 $a Furthermore, I examine the controlling metaphors of space, and the importance of spatial boundary-crossings in performance. This kind of movement is reflected in the metaphor of theater, another space where borders are imagined and the change in spatial relationships leads to the disruption in the identity of the characters.
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